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Sinjar - ܫܝܓܪ

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A town west of Mosul and east of Mount Sinjar.

Names

  • ܫܝܓܪ
  • Sinjar1, 4
  • ܫܝܓܳܪ2
  • سنجار3
  • سِنْجار8
  • Shiggar1
  • Singar5
  • Singara1
  • Sinjār6

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 36.321337° Long. 41.859566°7

Descriptions

“ܐܰܬܪܐ ܗܘ ܕܒܰܫܦܘܠܳܐ ܕܛܘܪܳܐ ܕܫܝܓܳܪ ܠܡܰܥܪܰܒ ܡܰܘܨܠ ܒܰܝܢܳܬܗܝܢ ܬܠܳܬܐ ܝܰܘܡܝ̈ܢ.” 2
“بلدة في لحف جبل سنجار غربي الموصل بينهما ثلاثة ايام.” 3
“a town situated at the foot of the Sinjar mountain, three days’ journey from Mosul.” 4
A town west of Mosul and east of Mount Sinjar.

Attestation

Attestation of name سِنْجار in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. سِنْجار8 8
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Works 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: 3, 18, 53, 116, 355, map: Map I C1, II C1.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 557.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 516.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 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: 558.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Singar.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 David Wilmshurst, The ecclesiastical organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 582; Subsidia, tomus 104 (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), p: 44, 49, 345, 352.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874699
  • 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: ΙΙΙ:297.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/184.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ .”, 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/184.

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Entry Title: Sinjar — ܫܝܓܪ

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
  • Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
  • 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

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