Kaysum - ܟܝܫܘܡ
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A town north of Qalʿa Rumayta and west of Samosata.
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“ܐܰܬܪܳܐ ܕܒܐܘܚܕܳܢܰܐ ܗܘ ܕܫܰܡܺܝܫܰܛ ܕܐܝܬ ܒܗ ܚܶܣܢܳܐ ܪܰܒܳܐ ܒܶܝܬ ܚܳܠܒ ܠܐܘܪܗܳܝ ܕܚܰܪܝܒ.” 2
“بلدة من اعمال سميساط ذات حصن كبير بين حلب والرها؛ مندثرة.” 3
“an ancient town in the province of Samosata, between Aleppo and Edessa. It also had a citadel.” 4
A town north of Qalʿa Rumayta and west of Samosata.
Status: published
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"Çakırhüyük, Besni" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 69, 107, 432, map: Map II B1.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 561.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 519.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 555.
- 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:565.
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Kaysum
— ܟܝܫܘܡ
” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/place/112.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Kaysum — ܟܝܫܘܡ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/place/112.About this Entry
Entry Title: Kaysum — ܟܝܫܘܡ
Additional Credit:
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
- Arabic description entry by Dayroyo Roger-Youssef Akhrass
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson