Ḥarran — <foreign xml:lang="syr">ܚܪܢ</foreign> Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft The National Endowment for the Humanities The International Balzan Prize Foundation Thomas A. Carlson David A. Michelson Silvio Roggo William L. Potter Holger Gzella John Healey Nathanael Andrade David Wilmshurst Data merging for Syriac World maps data by William L. Potter Syriac World maps edited by David A. Michelson Syriac World maps data revised by William L. Potter Syriac World maps cartography by Ian Mladjov Connection to the Syriac World identified by Holger Gzella Connection to the Syriac World identified by John Healey Connection to the Syriac World identified by Nathanael Andrade Connection to the Syriac World identified by David Wilmshurst Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/place/216/tei

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ADDED: Data from Syriac World maps CREATED: John of Ephesus Ecclesiastical History data CHANGED: Implemented May 2019 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A2019-May-Batch-Changes. The issues labeled were #742, #743, #746, #747, #749, #752, #754, #757, #759, #761, #763, #765, #766, #767, #768, #769, #770, #771, #772, #773, #774, #792, #793, #794, #797, #802, #803, #804, #806, #807, #815, #816, #817, #818, #819, #820, #821, #822, #823, #824, #825, #826, #827, #829, #831, #832, #833, #834, #836, #843, #847, #848, #849, #850, #851, #852, #853 CHANGED tei:author element to tei:persName under tei:event element. ADDED: Yaqut citation and attestation ADDED: syriaca-computed-start and syriaca-computed-end attributes for searching CREATED: place Ḥarran Carrhae Ḥārān ܚܪܢ حرّان Ḥarrān Harran ܚܪܢܝܐ Syr./Hebrew Ḥārān; Latin Carrhae; Arabic Ḥarran. Ancient city in Mesopotamia, approximately 45 km south-southeast of Edessa. 250. Ḥarran ܡܕܺܝܢܬܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܪܰܒܬܳܐ ܘܥܰܬܝܩܬܳܐ ܕܰܒܬܰܝܡܢܗ̇ ܕܐܽܘܪܗܳܝ ܘܰܚܫܝܒܳܐ ܗܘܳܬ ܪܒܐ ܕܐܰܬܪ̈ܘܳܬܐ ܕܡܨܪ ܘܰܩܪܝܬܳܐ ܗܝ ܗܳܫܐ. كانت مدينة عظيمة قديمة في جنوبي الرها و بينهما يوم وعُدّت قصبة ديار مضر وامست قرية once a great city, a day’s journey south from Edessa. It was considered the capital of Diyar Miṣr, but now is a small village. 36.8775 39.033889 36.8646007000 39.0311623000 Attestation of name حرّان in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. http://syriaca.org/place/216 http://syriaca.org/johnofephesus/places/216 https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658427 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harran http://dbpedia.org/resource/Harran http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=H&sK=Harran&sT=keywords H. Takahashi 250. Ḥarran The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 191-192 The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage 2, 54, 71, 127, 133, 138, 142, 168, 189, 191–192 (with fig. 55), 220, 230, 247, 252, 277 (fig. 72), 285, 294, 302, 327, 347, 399, 403, 420 Map I B1, II B1, III ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ 539 كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية 506 The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences 553 The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity Harran Muʿjam al-buldān Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī II:271 313 3.6.17 1, 7 1, 2, 7 826 828 205-221 47-67 770-782 189-201 Mesopotamia