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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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

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.