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Buḥayrat Afāmiya (open water)

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Lake near Fāmiya/Apamea in Syria

Names

  • Arabic: بحيرة أفامية = Buḥayrat Afāmiya 1
  • Arabic: بحيرة فامية = Buḥayrat Fāmiya 2

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 22 (4) 233 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 160, 161 [Arabic].
    • Fāmiya, Lake: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 144, 145 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Buḥayrat Afāmiya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17573.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; and matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract and categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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