al-Ruṣāfa (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/7326

A city in Syria

Names

Arabic: الرصافة = al-Ruṣāfa 1
Arabic: الزوراء = al-Zawrāʾ 2

Temporal Data

Show table of instances where this place is mentioned

Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 283، 510 (3) 47، 50، 60، 156 (4) 103، 419 (5) 325 [Arabic].
2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 47، 156 [Arabic].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “al-Ruṣāfa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/7326.

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

Show additional credits

Report an error
in this record