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.

K

Kairouan (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Qayrawān "a holy city in modern Tunisia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/290
Kamākh (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Kemah "a fortress near the city of Erzerum, modern-day Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/291
Karaj (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-KarajKaraj Abī Dulaf "a city in the Jibāl province of Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/293
Karak (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Karak "a fortress situated to the east of the Dead Sea" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/294
Karkh (quarter) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Karkh "a district of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/295
Karkh Guddan (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient city near the modern Iraq-Iran border" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/296
Kārūn (river) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Dujaylthe ‘small Tigris’ "river in Khuzestan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/297
Kashkar (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Kaskar "an ancient town on the west bank of the Tigris, opposite Wāsiṭ" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/298
al-Kaʿbah (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "the Kaaba, Bayt Allāh (‘God’s House’)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/289
al-Khandaq (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ‘the moat’‘the trench’ "a village near New Cairo (al-Qāhirah)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/300
al-Kharibah (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ‘the site of ruins’ "an unidentified Egyptian locality" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/302
Kharpūt (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: HarpūtKharberdKharpertKhartabirt "a town north of the city of Diyarbakir, the modern the town of Elāzij in eastern Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/304
al-Khaṭṭ (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "place in eastern Arabia famous for its lances" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/305
al-Khayf (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] "name of several places in the Hijaz, including one at Minā near Mecca" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/309
Khilāṭ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ahlat "a town on the west bank of Lake Van in Asia Minor" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/311
Khorasan (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Khurasan "the eastern part of Persia, including parts of what are today Central Asia and Afghanistan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/312

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.