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“Town in the Qalamun mountains, Syria, ca. 95 km. northeast of Damascus and less than 20 km. north of Nabk (see Dayr Mār Mūsā al-Ḥabashī), often mentioned as a caravan station between Ḥimṣ and Damascus.” 1

Names

  • Qara2, 3
  • قارة5

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 34.16826385° Long. 36.75343335°4

Descriptions

“439. Qara” 1
“Town in the Qalamun mountains, Syria, ca. 95 km. northeast of Damascus and less than 20 km. north of Nabk (see Dayr Mār Mūsā al-Ḥabashī), often mentioned as a caravan station between Ḥimṣ and Damascus.” 1

Attestation

Attestation of name قارة in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. قارة5 5
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay439. QaraThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 342-343., p: 342-343.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 40, 286, 342–343 (with fig. 101, 102), 425, map: Map II A2, V.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Qara.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668221
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:334.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Qara” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/161.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Qara.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/161.

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Entry Title: Qara

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  • 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
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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