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Church of St. Thomas the Apostle (church)

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

Names

  • Syriac: ܗܝܟܠܐ ܕܝܠܗ ܕܡܪܝ ܬܐܘܡܐ = HYKLʾ DYLH DMRY TʾWMʾ 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), 123 [Syriac].
    • Thomas (s.): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 204, 299; III, 398 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Church of St. Thomas the Apostle” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/66.

Additional credit information:

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