Adıyaman

by Sinclair, Thomas A.

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Adıyaman is a town in present-day southeastern Turkey, in the Euphrates basin south of and beneath the Taurus range, located on the site of the ancient settlement of Pordonnium (Lat.), which probably betrays a local name from which Adıyaman is also derived. In the ʿAbbāsid period, it was known as Ḥiṣn Manṣūr, one of the thughūr fortresses built by Hārūn al-Rashīd (r. 170–93/786–809), which replaced Perrhē as the principal local settlement, whose remains lie at Pirun, four kilometres to the nort…

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Adıyaman is a town in present-day southeastern Turkey, in the Euphrates basin south of and beneath the Taurus range, located on the site of the ancient settlement of Pordonnium (Lat.), which probably betrays a local name from which Adıyaman is also derived. In the ʿAbbāsid period, it was known as Ḥiṣn Manṣūr, one of the thughūr fortresses built by Hārūn al-Rashīd (r. 170–93/786–809), which replaced Perrhē as the principal local settlement, whose remains lie at Pirun, four kilometres to the northeast. Pordonnium and Perrhē both

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei233

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eng Islam

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Sinclair, Thomas A.

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