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Damascus (diocese)

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Syriac Orthodox diocese

Names

  • Syriac: ܕܪܡܣܩ = DRMSQ 1
  • Syriac: ܕܪܡܣܘܩ = DRMSWQ 2
  • Syriac: ܕܡܫܩ = DMShQ 3
  • Syriac: ܕܡܣܩܘܣ = DMSQWS 4

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1-4 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), 757 [Syriac].
    • Damas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 454 [French].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 759, 760, 761, 762, 763, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771 [Syriac].
    • Damas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 457, 459, 462, 464, 465, 466, 473, 477, 478, 480, 482 [French].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 760, 763, 765 [Syriac].
    • Damas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 460, 465, 469 [French].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 761, 764 [Syriac].
    • Damas: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 461, 466 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Damascus” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/18840.

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  • 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
  • Laurel Kenner: indexed dioceses from Michael's chronicle
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