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    Acragas (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Agrigento "ancient Greek city in Sicily, the modern Agrigento" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/5
    Acre (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ʿAkkāAkko "a city in the northern coastal plain of modern-day Israel" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/6
    ʿAḍudī Hospital (hospital) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Bīmāristān al-ʿAḍudī "in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/8
    Afshanah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a village near Bokhara, birthplace of Ibn Sīnā" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/10
    al-Ahwāz (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ahvaz "an early important commercial town on the river Kārūn (or Dujayl) situated halfway between Baghdad and Shiraz" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/12
    ʿAjlūn (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ajloun "a hilly town in the north of present-day Jordan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/13
    Akhmīm (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "city in Upper Egypt, the ancient Panopolis" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/14
    Alarcos (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "city in today’s province of Ciudad Real (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/15
    ʿĀlij (natural-feature) - [Syriac Not Available] "of uncertain location, often said to be a sandy tract in Arabia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/19
    Almeria (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-MariyyahAlmería "town in al-Andalus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/21
    Alzira (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Jazīrat al-Shuqar "city in the province of Valencia (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/23
    Amida (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Āmid "an ancient town in eastern Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/24
    ʿAmmūriyah (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: AmorionAmorium "stronghold on the military road from Constantinople to Cilicia, southwest of Ankara" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/26
    al-Anbār (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bērsabōra "important town on the left bank of the Euphrates near Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/29
    Antioch (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: AnṭākiyahAntakya "ancient town in northern Syria (now in Turkey)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/32
    Aphrodisias (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient Greek city in south-western Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/34
    ʿAqrabāʾ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a locality near the Syrian city of Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/35
    Aquileia (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "Roman city of northern Italy Arabian Peninsula" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/37
    Argos (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "Greek city of the Peloponnese al-ʿArīsh, Egyptian city on the Mediterranean coast of Sinai" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/38
    Armenia (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Armīniyah "region of the southern Caucasus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/39
    Ascalon (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ʿAsqalān "coastal city of Palestine" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/40
    Aswān (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "town on the eastern bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/42
    Asyūṭ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Assiut "city of Upper Egypt important for trade and agriculture" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/43
    ʿAydhāb (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a once important port on the Red Sea in what is now modern-day Sudan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/48
    ʿAyn Shams (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Heliopolis "now a suburb of Cairo, the ancient Heliopolis" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/49
    ʿAyn Zarbah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: AnazarbusAnazarbosAnazarba "ancient city in south-western Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/50
    Azerbaijan (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ādharbayjān "a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/51
    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-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-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 Baradān (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "one of the gates of Baghdad, located on the Baradān road" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/57
    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 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
    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
    Balkh (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bactria "city in Khorasan, in the north of present-day Afghanistan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/81
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Byzantine Empire (state) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bilād al-Rūm`balad al-Rūm`‘land of the Romans’URI: https://usaybia.net/place/119
    Caesarea (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: QaysāriyyahQaysariyyah "a coastal town of Palestine" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/120
    Campanar (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "town located north-west of Valencia (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/122
    Canjáyar (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Qanjayrah "city in the region of Almería (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/124
    Castle of Barqā (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Qalʿat Barqā "unidentified place in Armenia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/128
    Ceuta (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: SabtaSabtah "a city in North-Africa" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/131
    Church of Saint Theodore (church) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Kanīsat Mār Thawādrus "Coptic church lying just to the south of Old Cairo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/137
    Circesium (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Qarqīsiyā "town in north-eastern Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/138
    Dabarkī (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Divrigi "small town and district of Sivas Province in modern-day Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/147
    al-Dakhwāriyyah College (madrasa) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Madrasah al-Dakhwāriyyah "medical school in Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/148
    Damascus (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: DimashqJilliqal-Shāmwhich may also refer to Greater SyriaURI: https://usaybia.net/place/149
    Daqūqāʾ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town in the Jazīrah province of modern Iraq, on the main road between Baghdad and Mosul" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/152
    Dār al-Dhahab (madrasa) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Golden House "a law college (`madrasah`) in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/153
    Dār Ibn al-Zaʿfarānī (building) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: the House of Ibn al-Zaʿfarānī "in al-Ruhā" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/155
    Daylam (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "highlands in Iran close to the Caspian Sea, also the name of its people" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/160
    Dayr al-Quṣayr (monastery) - [Syriac Not Available] "the Monastery of Saint Arsenius near the town of Ṭurā, south of Cairo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/168
    Dayr Banī l-Ṣaqr (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Ītākhīyyahal-Muḥammadiyyah "unidentified locality not far from Baghdad or Sāmarrā" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/164
    Dayr Qunnā (monastery) - [Syriac Not Available] "a Nestorian monastery on the Tigris S. of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/167
    Dhāt al-Ajraʿ (natural-feature) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: the sandy tract "unidentified desert location" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/173
    Diyār Bakr (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Diyarbakır "city in Eastern Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/177
    Dunaysir (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "town (now ruins) south-west of the city of Mārdīn in modern-day Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/181
    Dunbāwand (mountain) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Damāwand "a mountain in northern Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/182
    Durtā (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Dayr Durtā "place of a monastery in Iraq" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/183
    Elea (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Velia "ancient Greek city on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/186
    Elvira (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "Roman city in today’s province of Granada (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/187
    Epidaurus (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: FīdārūsQindārūs "in the Peloponnese" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/190
    Epirus (state) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient Greek state in the western Balkans" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/191
    Erbil (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ArbilIrbil "city in northern Iraq, east of Mosul" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/192
    Erzerum (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Arzan al-RūmErzurum "Erzurum (Arzan al-Rūm), city in Anatolia, modern-day Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/194
    Erzinjan (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Arzanjān "city in Anatolia, modern-day Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/195
    Euphrates (river) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Furāt "one of the two great rivers of Mesopotamia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/197
    Fārāb (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: OtrarUtrarFarāb "town in Khorasan now southern Kazakhstan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/198
    Faramā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Pelusium "strategic city on the eastern Delta" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/199
    Fardajān (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Barāhān "also known as Barāhān, a fortress near Hamadān" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/200
    Fayd (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town in the Ḥijāz, at halfway point on the pilgrimage route between Iraq and Mecca" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/203
    Fīlmān (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "unidentified locality; possibly corruption of Fīlān (an eastern Caucasian region close to the western coasts of the Caspian)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/207
    Fīrūzkūh (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a fortified city in the province of Ghūr in Central Afghanistan, capital of the senior branch of the Ghūrid sultans" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/208
    Fustat (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Miṣr al-ʿAtīqahOld Cairoal-FusṭāṭMiṣr al-Qadīmah "the first Muslim capital of Egypt" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/209
    Ghaznah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town in eastern Afghanistan, now called Ghazni" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/213
    Ghūr (province) - [Syriac Not Available] "province of Central Afghanistan in medieval times" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/214
    al-Ghūṭah (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "the fertile land south and east of Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/215
    Giza (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Jīzah "a town on the west bank of the Nile" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/217
    Gondēshāpūr (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Jundaysābūr "ruins of ancient city to the southeast of Dizfūl in southwest Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/218
    Hamadan (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: EcbatanaHamadhānHamadān "city in Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/228
    al-Ḥaram (quarter) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: the Holy Precinctthe Holy Precinct (in Mecca)URI: https://usaybia.net/place/231
    al-Ḥarasiyyāt (designated-space) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Ḥarashiyyāt? (reading uncertain) "estates in Iraq" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/232
    Ḥarrān (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Carrhae "an ancient town (Carrhae) of Upper Mesopotamia, in the modern Turkish province of Diyarbakır" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/234
    Hatra (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: HaṭrāHāṭrā "a place near Samarra (not to be confused with ancient Hatra/al-Ḥaḍr near Mosul)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/237
    Ḥawrān (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: HouranHauran "a volcanic plateau in southwestern Syria extending into the northwestern corner of modern-day Jordan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/238
    Ḥazzah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a settlement west of Irbil (Arbil), in Iraq" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/239
    Herat (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Harāt "a city in modern-day Afgh-anistan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/241
    al-Ḥijāz (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: HejazHijaz "a region in the west-ern Arabian Peninsula, Najd to the east and Tihāmah to the west" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/242
    Ḥīnī (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Hani "a town near the city of Diyarbakır in eastern Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/245
    al-Ḥīrah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town on the Euphrates, southwest of the modern Najaf, in Iraq" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/246
    al-Ḥiyār (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ḥiyār Banī l-Qaʿqāʿ "probably in northern Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/248
    Īdhaj (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Māl-i Amīr "city in western Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/254
    Ifrīqiyah (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "area that comprises today’s Tunisia, Western Libya and Eastern Algeria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/255
    Ionia (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Yūnān "ancient Greek city and islands states of the eastern Aegean and its seaboard" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/262
    Iraq (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-ʿIrāq "the southern part of modern Iraq" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/263
    ʿĪsābādh (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "a palace and pleasure ground built by the caliph al-Mahdī on the eastern side of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/264
    Isfahan (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Iṣfahān "city in Persia/Iran, south of Tehran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/265
    Jabal Tayyiʾ (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "an upland region in northern Arabia encompassing Mt. Ajaʾ and Mt. Salmā" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/268
    Játiva (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Shāṭibah "town in eastern al-Andalus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/275
    al-Jazīrah (Jazīrat Miṣr) (island) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-RawḍahRodaJazīrat Miṣr "the island of Rawḍah (Roda) in the River Nile near Cairo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/279
    Jazīrat ibn ʿUmar (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Gazarta "modern-day Cizre in southeastern Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/281
    Jaʿbar (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Qalʿat Jaʿbar "a fortress in the mediaeval town of al-Raqqah in present day Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/269
    Jerusalem (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bayt al-MaqdisĪliyāʾal-QudsBayt al-MuqaddasBayt al-MaqdīsURI: https://usaybia.net/place/282
    al-Jibāl (natural-feature) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-JabalMediaZagros Mountains‘the Mountains’ "region in western Persia, ancient Media" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/283
    Jīlān (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Jīlān "a region in Tabaristan, near the southern coasts of the Caspian Sea" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/284
    Jūrqab (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "a district near Shīrāz in Persia/modern Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/288
    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
    Khusrawshāh (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Khosrow Shahr "a small settlement west of Tabrīz in Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/315
    Khuzestan (province) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Khūzistān "a province in the southwest of Iran, between the Zagros mountains and the Persian Gulf" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/317
    Khwārazm (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ChorasmiaKhivaKhuwārizmKhwārizmKhorezm "a city in the Xorazm province of present-day Uzbekistan; modern name Khiva" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/318
    Kirmān (province) - [Syriac Not Available] "a province of Persia, lying south of Khorasan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/319
    Kufa (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Kūfah "town in Iraq, near present-day Najaf" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/323
    al-Kūlam (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town in India, now the port of Quilon in Kerala" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/324
    Latakiyah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Lādhiqiyyah "the principal port of in Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/328
    Libn (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "a place said to be in China (error for Yemen?)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/330
    Lucena (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Yussānah "city in today’s province of Cordoba (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/335
    Macedon (state) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Macedonia "ancient kingdom on the periphery of Greece" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/337
    al-Madāʾin (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ctesiphon "an ancient town (Ctesiphon) 20 miles southwest of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/338
    Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Zahrāʾ "caliphal city on the outskirts of Cordova" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/339
    Maghārat Afqah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: AfqahCave of Afqahthe Cave of Afqah "village and cave between the villages of Baalbek and Byblos, northeast of modern-day Beirut" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/342
    Maghrib (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: North Africaal-Maghrib‘the West’ "North Africa excluding Egypt" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/343
    al-Maḥallah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a provincial town in Egypt, probably al-Maḥallah al-Kubrā" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/345
    Mahdia (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Mahdiyyah "city in the coast of Tunisia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/347
    Makrān (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Mukrān "the coastal region of southern Baluchistan that today is the political boundary between Pakistan and Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/348
    Malatya (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Malaṭyah "a city in the eastern Anatolia region of Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/350
    Malāzkird (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Mantzikert "a town a little north of Khilāṭ in Asia Minor" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/351
    al-Manṣūr (designated-space) - [Syriac Not Available] "name of the camp of Saladin on the outskirts of Acre" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/353
    Manṣūrī Hospital (hospital) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bīmāristān al-Manṣūrī "established in Cairo in 683/1285" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/354
    Maqābir al-shuyūkh (cemetery) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ‘Cemetery of the Venerable Men’ "in Marrakesh" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/355
    Maragheh (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Marāghah "a city on the river Sufi Chay in the Azerbaijan province of Iran, famous for an early observatory" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/358
    Marand (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a city in the modern-day east Azerbaijan Province, Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/359
    al-Marāwizah (quarter) - [Syriac Not Available] "a quarter in Baghdad contiguous with al-Ḥarbiyyah where the people of Marv used to dwell" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/360
    Māridīn (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: MardēMārdīn "city of northern Mesopotamia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/361
    Mayyāfāriqīn (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: SilvanMartyropolis "settlement east of the city of Diyarbakir in eastern Anatolia (now in Turkey)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/368
    al-Maʿarrah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān "a city in northwestern Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/336
    Merv (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: MarwMaryMerw "a medieval city in present-day Turkmenistan, now called Mary" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/375
    Miletus (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient Greek city on the western coast of Asia Minor" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/380
    Monastir (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Munastīr "city on the coast of Tunisia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/382
    Mopsuestia (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Maṣṣīṣā "city of Cilicia in southern Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/383
    Mosul (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Mawṣil "a city in northern Iraq on the west bank of the Tigris near ancient Nineveh" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/386
    Mount Qāsiyūn (mountain) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Qāsiyūn "a mountain overlooking Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/391
    Mufaḍḍal Lane (designated-space) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Darb al-Mufaḍḍal "location in East Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/394
    Murcia (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Mursiyah "a city in south-east al-Andalus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/396
    Murviedro (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: MūrāṭīrSagunto "city in Spain known today as Sagunto" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/397
    al-Mushaqqar (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a settlement and port on the eastern coast of Arabia, exact location unknown" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/398
    Muṭbaq (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "name of a prison in the southern part of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/400
    Mysia (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "a region in the northwest part of ancient Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/401
    Nablus (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Nābulus "a city approximately 49 km N. of Jerusalem" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/402
    al-Nahrawān (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town and system of canals on the lower Tigris River" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/411
    Naṣībīn (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: NisibisNusaybin "in south-eastern Analtolia, on the Syrian border" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/415
    Navas de Tolosa (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-ʿIqāb "city in today’s province of Jaén" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/417
    Nedroma (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Nadrūmah "town near to the city of Tlemcen (Morocco)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/418
    Nishapur (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: NaysābūrNīsābūr "a city of north-eastern Khorasan province of Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/425
    Nūrī Hospital (hospital) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: the Great Hospital "‘the Great Hospital’ (al-Bīmāristān al-Nūrī, al-Bīmāristān al-Kabīr) founded by Nūr al-Dīn in Damascus in 543/1154" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/427
    Osuna (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ushūnah "city in the province of Seville (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/429
    Pechina (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bajjānah "city in today’s province of Almería (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/434
    Pelusium (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient city on the eastern fringe of the Nile delta" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/436
    Pergamum (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: FarghāmusPergamonBergama "a Greek city in the Aeolis region of western Asia Minor" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/438
    Pontus (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient region on the southern coast of the Black Sea" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/443
    Port-Vendres (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Haykal al-Zuharah "coastal town in the Eastern Pyrenees" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/444
    al-Qābūn (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "a stop on road from Damascus to Iraq, today a part of greater Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/447
    al-Qādisiyyah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town on the east bank of the Tigris, southeast of Samarra" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/448
    Qamrā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: QamrāʾQamrāw "a village near Ṣarkhad in Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/450
    Qaṣr al-Shamaʿ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bābilyūnal-Shamʿ "the Arabic name for the Graeco-Coptic township of Babylon (Bābilyūn), on the east bank of the Nile" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/458
    Qazwīn (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town and district northwest of Tehran and south of Gīlān, in northern Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/462
    al-Qilījiyyah Law College (madrasa) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Madrasah al-Qilījiyyah "al-Madrasah al-Qilījiyyah, in Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/463
    Qubādir Zubayrūn (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "of uncertain identity, possibly Qanādir in Iṣfahān or Qānariz near Nīshapur" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/464
    Qūṣ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "town in Upper Egypt not far from modern Luxor" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/467
    al-Rabadhah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a way station on the main pilgrimage route between Kufa and Mecca" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/470
    al-Raḥbah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Raḥbat Mālik ibn ṬawqRaḥbat al-Shām "a town on the right bank of the Euphrates; modern al-Mayādīn in eastern Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/472
    al-Rāhib (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "a place on the road between Samarra and Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/473
    al-Ramlah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town on the coastal plain west-northwest of Jerusalem" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/474
    Raqqa (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Raqqah "a city on the north bank of the Euphrates, about 160 kilometres east of Aleppo, Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/475
    Raqqādah (building) - [Syriac Not Available] "palace city of the Aghlabids southwest of Kairaouan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/476
    Rayy (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Rayy "a town near the modern city of Tehran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/477
    Rēsh ʿAynā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Raʾs al-ʿAyn "an ancient city on the modern Syria-Turkey border, today forming a single divided city with Ceylanpınar in Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/478
    Rhodes (island) - [Syriac Not Available] "the largest island in the Dodecanese island chain off the Anatolian coast of Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/479
    al-Ruhā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: EdessaŞanlıurfaUrfa "ancient city now in northern Mesopotamia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/482
    Salé (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Salā "coastal city in north-western Morocco" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/486
    Samarkand (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Samarqand "a city in modern-day Uzbekistan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/489
    Samarra (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Surra Man RaʾāSāmarrāʾ "a town on the east bank of the middle Tigris in Iraq, north of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/490
    al-Samāwah (natural-feature) - [Syriac Not Available] "the steppe and desert lands between southern Iraq and Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/491
    Samos (island) - [Syriac Not Available] "an island off the western coast of Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/493
    Samosata (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Sumaysāṭ "an ancient city in south-east Anatolia on the upper Euphrates" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/495
    Saragossa (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: SaraqusṭāhZaragozaSaraqusṭah "city and petty kingdom in al-Andalus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/498
    Ṣarkhad (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ṣalkhad "a stronghold in southern Syria near the border of present-day Jordan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/501
    Saydnāyā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Sednaya "a city in the mountains north of Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/505
    Seville (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: IshbīliyahSevilla "city in al-Andalus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/507
    Shaqqā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Shaqqah "a village in the Ḥawrān, Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/510
    al-Sharā (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "a region proverbial for lions, said to be in Yemen" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/511
    Shāsh (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tashkent "Tashkent, in modern Uzbekistan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/512
    Shiraz (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Shīrāz "ancient city in the Fārs region of southwestern modern Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/513
    Shirimsāḥ (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Shirmasāḥ "a town near Damietta in Lower Egypt" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/514
    Shoubak (fortification) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Shawbak "a fortress town in the Transjordan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/515
    Sidonia (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Medina SidoniaShadūnah "city in today’s province of Cádiz (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/517
    Ṣiffīn (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a place near the modern al-Raqqah, in Syria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/518
    Sind (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-SindSindh "a region along the lower Indus River" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/521
    Sinjar (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Sinjār "a town in Iraq near Mount Sinjar" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/522
    al-Sīq (monastery) - [Syriac Not Available] "the ‘Great Lavra’ of the Dayr Mār Sābā monastery near Jerusalem" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/523
    Siʿird (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: SiʿirtIsʿird "a town in south-eastern Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/519
    Sūq al-Qanādīl (quarter) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Candlestick Market "a quarter in Fustat" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/526
    Sūq Yaḥyā (quarter) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Yaḥyā’s Market "a district on the eastern side of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/527
    al-Sūs (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Susa "a town in the southwestern province of Khuzestan" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/529
    Syria (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bilād al-Shāmal-ShāmGreater Syria (normally also includingSyriaJordanPalestineIsraeland Lebanon)URI: https://usaybia.net/place/531
    Tabaristan (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ṭabaristān "region of northern Persia on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/535
    Tabrīz (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a city in the northern region of Persia, in the Quru River valley" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/536
    Takrīt (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tikrīt "town between Baghdad and Mosul" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/539
    Talavera (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "city in today’s province of Toledo (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/540
    al-Ṭalīl (unknown) - [Syriac Not Available] "an unidentified locality on the way to Karak" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/541
    Taormina (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tauromenium "ancient Greek city in Sicily" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/543
    Tarentum (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Taras "ancient Greek city of southern Italy" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/544
    Ṭārum (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "district of Daylam in north-western Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/546
    Teos (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/548
    Thrace (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "historical region of northern Balkan peninsula" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/553
    Tiflis (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: TbilisiTiflīs "capital of the modern-day republic of Georgia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/554
    Tigris (river) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Dijlah "one of the two great rivers of Mesopotamia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/555
    Tinnīs (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tenessos "town and lake of the eastern part of the Nile Delta, ancient Tenessos" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/557
    Ṭīzanābādh (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town between Kufa and al-Qādisiyyah, on the pilgrim route" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/559
    Tlemcen (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tilimsān "city in north-western Algeria" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/560
    Toledo (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ṭulayṭulah "city and Andalusī `ṭāʾifah` in Spain" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/561
    Tralles (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient Greek city of south-west Anatolia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/562
    Transoxiana (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Mā warāʾ al-NahrMā warāʾ al-nahrURI: https://usaybia.net/place/563
    Tripoli (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ṬarābulusṬarābulus al-Gharb "city in Libya" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/565
    Troy (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "ancient city, the modern Hisarlık, Turkey" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/566
    Trujillo (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Turjālah "city in today’s province of Cáceres (Spain)" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/567
    Tuesday Market (designated-space) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Bīʿat Sūq al-ThalāthāʾSūq al-Thalāthāʾ "in Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/568
    Tunis (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tūnis "capital of today’s Tunisia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/569
    al-Ṭūr (natural-feature) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ṭūr ʿAbdīn "a plateau in northern Mesopotamia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/570
    Ṭurā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town about 10 miles (15 km) south of Cairo" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/571
    Turbessel (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Tall Bāshir "a castle and town in northern Syria in the valley of the Sājūr, a tributary of the Euphrates" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/572
    Ṭūs (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Susia "an ancient city near Mashhad in Iran" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/573
    Tustar (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ShushtarShūshtarShūstarTushtar "a town in the Khuzestan province of Persia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/574
    Tyre (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Ṣūr "a city in the south of present-day Lebanon" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/575
    ʿUkbarā (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town located on the east bank of the Tigris, halfway between Baghdad and Samarra" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/577
    Usrūshanah (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "the mountainous district between Samarqand and Khujand" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/579
    Wādī Kanʿān (river) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: ʿAyn Jālūtthe Wadi of KanaanGoliath’s Spring "the site in Palestine of the victory of the Mamluks over the Mongols in 658/1260" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/582
    Yabrūd (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a large village near Saydnāyā, north of Damascus" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/586
    Yamama (region) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: al-Yamāmah "region in central and eastern Arabia" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/589
    Yūnān (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "said to be a ‘(pen)insula’, home of the Greeks" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/591
    Zanjān (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town and district approximately 150 kilometres west of Qazwīn" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/595
    al-Zawrāʾ (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] "name of several locations, including a part of Baghdad" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/597
    al-ʿAbbāsah (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "a town in Egypt favoured by Ayyubids as a retreat for hunting and fishing" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/1
    al-ʿAlth (settlement) - [Syriac Not Available] "town north of Baghdad, on the east bank of the Tigris" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/22
    al-ʿAttābiyyah (quarter) - [Syriac Not Available] "a quarter in Baghdad famous for its cloth called `ʿattābī`" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/47
    al-ʿAzīziyyah (region) - [Syriac Not Available] "a region consisting of five villages in Egypt named after the Fatimid caliph al-ʿAzīz" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/53
    al-ʿUdhayb (composite) - [Syriac Not Available] Names: Little Sweetwater "name of several desert locations" URI: https://usaybia.net/place/576

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      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.