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Mār Bar Ṣawmā (monastery)

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A monastery that served as the residence for Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs in the 11th-13th centuries CE, located in the mountains southeast of Melitene.

Names

  • Arabic: دير برصوما = Dayr Barṣawmā 1
  • Syriac: ܥܘܡܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ = ʿWMRʾ DMRY BR ṢWMʾ 2

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 500 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 486 [Syriac].
    • Bar Çauma: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 10, 121, 124, 135, 137, 138, 162, 163, 174, 177, 181, 190, 198, 206, 228, 236, 252, 256, 259, 260, 269, 274, 283-288, 290, 291, 298, 300-303, 308, 313, 321, 325, 327, 331, 334, 343, 344, 347, 360, 363, 364, 367, 378, 382, 384-386, 391, 394, 395, 399, 408, 409, 411, 412, 450, 453, 455, 456, 462-464, 466-470, 474-482 [French].
    • Mor-Barṣawmō: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), ix & n.4, et passim, xviii, 10, 12, 40, 46, 54, 56, 76, 90, 110, 156, 170, 174, 192 n.566, 200, 202, 210, 216, 234, 242, 262-272, 280, 282, 286 & n.793, 292, 296-302, 310, 312, 316, 320, 326, 338, 344, 348 n.980, 350, 368, 374, 376, 382 n.1068, 386 n.1078, 400, 410, 414-420, 424, 434, 442, 456, 463, 469 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Mār Bar Ṣawmā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/115.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; and Syriac Gazetter matching
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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