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Bīr Qūm (monastery)

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a monastery near Balad in Mesopotamia

Names

  • Syriac: ܒܝܪ ܩܘܡ = BYR QWM 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), 525 [Syriac].
    • Bir Qoum: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 73, 451, 452, 454-457 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Bīr Qūm” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/97.

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