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Gargar - ܓܪܓܪ

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A city near the Euphrates between Melitene and Amida.

Names

  • ܓܪܓܪ
  • Gargar1, 4
  • ܓܰܪܓܰܪ2
  • جرجر3
  • كركر3
  • كَرْكر5
  • Gerger1
  • Karkar4

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 38.028889° Long. 39.032222°1

Descriptions

“ܚܶܣܢܰܐ ܗܘ ܘܰܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܒܩܘܪܒܳܐ ܕܡܝܺܠܝܺܛܝܢܝ ܒܶܝܬ ܫܰܡܝܫܰܛ ܠܚܰܣܢ ܙܝܰܐܕ ܠܡܰܥܪܒܳܐ ܕܰܦܪܳܬ. ܚܶܪܒܰܬ.” 2
“حصن وبلدة قرب ملطية بين سميساط وحصن زياد غربي الفرات تولاها الخراب.” 3
A city near the Euphrates between Melitene and Amida.
“an ancient citadel and town near Melitene, between Samosata and Ḥiṣn Ziyād, west of the Euphrates.” 4

Attestation

Attestation of name كَرْكر in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. كَرْكر5 5
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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: 60, 284, 290, 335, map: Map III.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: 560.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: 518.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: 555.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: IV:514.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Gargar — ܓܪܓܪ ” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/86.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Gargar — ܓܪܓܪ .”, 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/86.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Gargar — ܓܪܓܪ

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

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