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Savior (church)

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A church in Edessa built by Abgar and destroyed by the Arabs in the late 12th century CE.

Names

  • Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܦܪܘܩܐ = ʿDTʾ DMRY PRWQʾ 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), 733 [Syriac].
    • Parouqa: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 398 [French].
    • Lord Saviour = Abgar: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 442 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Savior” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/57.

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