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Bāb al-Shām (quarter)

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A neighborhood in western Baghdad

Names

  • Arabic: باب الشام = Bāb al-Shām 1

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 308 (2) 100 [Arabic].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Bāb al-Shām” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/2493.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; and matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
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