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Beth Sūkhārā (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/18280

village of Palestine, allegedly Habakkuk's home town

Names

  • Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܣܘܟܪܐ = BYT SWKRʾ 1

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 63 [Syriac].
    • Beit Sochara: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 97 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Beth Sūkhārā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/18280.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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