Ḥawrān - ܚܘܪܢ
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A region south of Damascus and east of the Sea of Galilee.
Place Type
region
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 32.7335787681° Long. 36.5348059738°6
Descriptions
A region south of Damascus and east of the Sea of Galilee.
“Hawran, also called Haurin, is a mountainous region in southern Syria. Joh. Eph.,
EH 3.40, mentions that Magnus, an official who held high ranks under Justin II and
Tiberius, was a native of this region.” 8
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Works Cited
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011)., p: 86, 425, map: Map II A2.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991)., p: 537.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987)., p: 505.
- 4 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003)., p: 552.
- 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013)., entry: Hawran.
- 6 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678041entry: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678041., entry: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/678041.
- 7 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī and ياقوت الحموي, معجم البلدان (Beirut: دار الكتب العلميةDār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990)., p: II:364.
- 8 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)., p: 180.
- 9 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 174, chapter: 3.3.40.
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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
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson
- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo