Index of Places

    Search Tips

    For best results, users are recommended to use the advanced search functions. Search results can also be improved by the use of the the following Boolean search characters:

    Wildcard Characters:

    Given the prevalence of variant spellings in names, using Wildcard Characters may help.

    "?" can be inserted as a variant for any single character.

    Thus a search for:

    G?wargis  
    returns results which contain either "Gewargis" or "Giwargis".

    Similarly a search for:

    M?r  
    returns results which contain either "Mar" or "Mor".

    "*" can be inserted as a variant for multiple characters or a truncated word.

    Thus a search for:

    Dayr*  
    returns results for "Dayr" and "Dayro" and more.

    Similarly a search for

    Ab*  
    returns results for "ʿAbdishoʿ" and "ʿAbda" and more.

    Note: Because the sources we quote use a variety of transliteration formats, Syriaca.org ignores diacritics and punctuation in searching; for example, use of "ʿ" is not required to find results with this diacritical mark.

    Fuzzy Search Character

    Appending the character "~" after a word returns results for words that are close but not exact matches.

    Thus a search for

    Aba~  
    returns results which contain "Aba" but also "Abi", "Saba", "Aha", and other words that are "fuzzy" matches for "Aba".

    Exact Phrase Searches

    To find an exact phrase, it should be enclosed in double quotes.

    Thus

    "ʿAbdishoʿ I"  
    returns only one result with that exact phrase, while several results are found for the words "ʿAbdishoʿ" and "I".

    Proximity Characters

    To find two or more words which occur within a specified range of each other, one can append the character "~" followed by a number to an "Exact Phrase" search. This allows one to search for two or more words that occur within a specified distance of each other as defined by number of words.

    Thus

    "Jacob+Bishop"~2  
    finds three results in which the words "Jacob" and "Bishop" occur within two words of each other: "Jacob , bishop of Nisibin", "Jacob, bishop of Phesilta", and "Jacob , bishop of ‛Ānah" while a simple search for "Jacob Bishop" returns many more results.

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    Baalbek (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: BaʿlabakkHeliopolis "an ancient settlement and small town in modern-day eastern Lebanon" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/55
    Bāb al-Azaj (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Portico Gatethe ‘Portico Gate’ "a quarter in eastern Baghdad with many markets and large businesses" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/56
    Bāb al-Barīd (quarter) - [Syriac Not Available] "district in Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/58
    Bāb al-Farādīs (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bāb al-Imārah "one of the seven gates of Old Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/59
    Bāb al-Faraj (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Gate of Deliverance "the name of gates in both Damascus and Aleppo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/60
    Bāb al-Fatḥ (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Gate of VictoryVictory Gate "in Seville" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/61
    Bāb al-Gharabah (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ‘Willow Tree Gate’ "in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/62
    Bāb al-Jawz (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Walnut Tree Gate "in Cordova" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/63
    Bāb al-Naqb (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "a place midway between the Bāb Khurāsān and the Bāb Baradān in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/66
    Bāb al-Naṣr (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Victory Gate "one of the city gates of Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/67
    Bāb al-Raḥmah (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: the Door/Gate of Mercy "one of the doors of the Golden Gate in Jerusalem" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/68
    Bāb al-Ṣaghīrah (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "one of the city gates of Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/69
    Bāb Baradān (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "one of the gates of Baghdad, located on the Baradān road" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/57
    Bāb Khirbat al-Harrās (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "gate in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/64
    Bāb Khurāsān (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "a gate of al-Manṣūr’s Round City (`Madīnat al-Salām`, the official name of Baghdad), located to the northeast, on the Khorasan road" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/65
    Bāb Shāʿ (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "in al-Ruhā" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/70
    Bāb Tūmā (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tūmā Gate "one of the city gates of Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/71
    Bāb Zuwaylah (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "a gate in the southern wall of the Fatimid fortifications of Cairo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/72
    Babel (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bābil "ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/73
    Badajoz (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: BaṭalyawsURI: https://usaybia.net/place/74
    Badhdh (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] "a district and fortress of northern Azerbaijan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/75
    Badr (designated-space) - [Syriac Not Available] "a place southwest of Medina, site of a battle between the nascent Muslim community and the Meccans" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/76
    Baghdad (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: City of PeaceMadīnat al-SalāmBaghdādBaghdādh‘the City of Peace’URI: https://usaybia.net/place/77
    Bahnasāʾ (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "a locality on the road between Malatya and Aleppo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/78
    Bahrain (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-BaḥraynURI: https://usaybia.net/place/79
    Balad (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a city on the Tigris" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/80
    Balkh (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bactria "city in Khorasan, in the north of present-day Afghanistan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/81
    Baluchistan (region) - [Syriac Not Available]URI: https://usaybia.net/place/82
    Bamyan (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bāmyān "a town in modern-day Afghanistan situated on the ancient silk route" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/83
    Bānyās canal (canal) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Nahr Bānyās "near Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/84
    Baradā (river) - [Syriac Not Available] "the river on which Damascus stands" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/86
    Baradān Bridge (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "one of the bridges over the Tigris in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/87
    Barqah (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "the eastern coastal region of modern Libya" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/88
    Basra (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Baṣrah "a city on the Shaṭṭ al-ʿArab waterway, southeast of Baghdad (medieval Basra is located in Zubayr, 20 km southwest of modern Basra)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/89
    al-Baṣṣah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "small town in Northern Palestine" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/90
    Bāward (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Abīward "town in Khorasan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/91
    Bawwān (valley) - [Syriac Not Available] "a valley in southern Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/92
    Bayn al-Qaṣrayn (designated-space) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ‘between the two palaces’ "a square between the eastern and western palaces built by the Fatimids in the centre of Cairo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/93
    Baʿqūbā (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "a place north-east of Bagdad, famous for its dates and fruit" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/85
    Beja (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bājat al-Gharb "city in the Alentejo region (Portugal)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/94
    Beth Garmai (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bājarmā "region around Kirkuk" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/96
    Bethlehem (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bayt LaḥmURI: https://usaybia.net/place/97
    Bilād al-ʿAjam (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "Lands of the Persians, Greater Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/99
    Bilbays (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town in lower Egypt, northeast of Cairo on the edge of the desert" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/100
    al-Birbāʾ (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "locality in Upper Egypt, near Panopolis" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/103
    Birkat al-Fīl (open-water) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Elephant Pond‘the Elephant Pond’ "the largest of several ponds and marshy areas in Cairo left by the River Nile as it shifted towards the West" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/104
    Birkat al-Ḥabash (open-water) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ‘the Pond of the Abyssinians’ "pool or lake on the southern fringes of Fustat" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/105
    Bīrūn (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: BeruniyKath "formerly known as Kath and capital of Khwārazm (modern-day Uzbekistan); in 1957 renamed ‘Beruniy’ in honour of al-Bīrūnī" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/106
    Bistam (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bisṭām "Bisṭām, town in Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/107
    Bithynia (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient region in northwestern Asia Minor" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/108
    Biʾr Maymūn (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "a well in or near Mecca, exact location uncertain" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/101
    Biʾr Zuwaylah (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "a well or pit near a quarter in Cairo called Ḥārat Zuwaylah, where the caliphal horses were kept" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/102
    Bīʿat Mār Tūmā (church) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: The Church of Saint Thomas "in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/98
    Bokhara (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: BukhārāBukharaURI: https://usaybia.net/place/109
    Bosra (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: BostraBuṣrā "a town in southern Syria near the Jordan border, an important stopover on the ancient caravan route to Mecca" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/110
    Bougie (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bijāyah "town in modern Algeria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/111
    Bruttium (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient region in southern Italy, the modern Calabria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/112
    Budandūn (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-BadandūnBadhandūnBozantı "a river and town in Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/113
    al-Buḥayrah (province) - [Syriac Not Available] "the western province of the Nile delta during the Fatimid period" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/114
    Burj (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a village near Isfahan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/115
    Būrnūs (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "unidentified; possibly Praesus, an ancient coastal town in eastern Crete, or Portus, the port of Rome" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/116
    Būshanj (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town in eastern Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/117
    Byblos (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "locality in present-day Lebanon" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/118
    Byzantine Empire (state) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bilād al-Rūm`balad al-Rūm`‘land of the Romans’URI: https://usaybia.net/place/119

      Search Tips

      For best results, users are recommended to use the advanced search functions. Search results can also be improved by the use of the the following Boolean search characters:

      Wildcard Characters:

      Given the prevalence of variant spellings in names, using Wildcard Characters may help.

      "?" can be inserted as a variant for any single character.

      Thus a search for:

      G?wargis  
      returns results which contain either "Gewargis" or "Giwargis".

      Similarly a search for:

      M?r  
      returns results which contain either "Mar" or "Mor".

      "*" can be inserted as a variant for multiple characters or a truncated word.

      Thus a search for:

      Dayr*  
      returns results for "Dayr" and "Dayro" and more.

      Similarly a search for

      Ab*  
      returns results for "ʿAbdishoʿ" and "ʿAbda" and more.

      Note: Because the sources we quote use a variety of transliteration formats, Syriaca.org ignores diacritics and punctuation in searching; for example, use of "ʿ" is not required to find results with this diacritical mark.

      Fuzzy Search Character

      Appending the character "~" after a word returns results for words that are close but not exact matches.

      Thus a search for

      Aba~  
      returns results which contain "Aba" but also "Abi", "Saba", "Aha", and other words that are "fuzzy" matches for "Aba".

      Exact Phrase Searches

      To find an exact phrase, it should be enclosed in double quotes.

      Thus

      "ʿAbdishoʿ I"  
      returns only one result with that exact phrase, while several results are found for the words "ʿAbdishoʿ" and "I".

      Proximity Characters

      To find two or more words which occur within a specified range of each other, one can append the character "~" followed by a number to an "Exact Phrase" search. This allows one to search for two or more words that occur within a specified distance of each other as defined by number of words.

      Thus

      "Jacob+Bishop"~2  
      finds three results in which the words "Jacob" and "Bishop" occur within two words of each other: "Jacob , bishop of Nisibin", "Jacob, bishop of Phesilta", and "Jacob , bishop of ‛Ānah" while a simple search for "Jacob Bishop" returns many more results.