Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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An important monastery near Mosul whose site has been incorporated into the modern city.

Names

  • Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham1
  • دير الأعلى3
  • Mar Abraham1
  • Mār Gabriel2
  • Upper Monastery1

Place Type

monastery

Descriptions

An important monastery near Mosul whose site has been incorporated into the modern city.

Attestation

Attestation of name دير الأعلى in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. دير الأعلى3 3
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  • 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011)., p: 143, 171, 249, 436.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913, CSCO 582, Subs. 104 (Louvain: Peeters, 2000), p: 140, 214.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī and ياقوت الحموي, معجم البلدان (Beirut: دار الكتب العلميةDār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990)., p: II:566.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/661.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham.”, 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/661.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Mar Gabriel and Mar Abraham

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

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