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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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

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.