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Tall Aʿfar (settlement)

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A town between Mosul and Sinjar

Names

  • Arabic: تل أعفر = Tall Aʿfar 1
  • Arabic: تل يعفر = Tall Yaʿfar 2
  • Arabic: تليعفر = Talyaʿfar 3
  • Syriac: ܬܠܠܝܥܦܪ = TLLYʿPR 4

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-3 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Bar Hebraeus 4 before 11991276-1286before 13571890

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 39 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 39 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 511، 530 (2) 39، 46 [Arabic].
  • 4Joannes Baptista Abbeloos and Thomas J. Lamy, eds., Gregorii Barhebraei Chronicon Ecclesiasticum (Leuven: Peeters, 1872), II:347 [Syriac with Latin Translation].
    • Tell Aphar: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 317 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Tall Aʿfar” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/3986.

Additional credit information:

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