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Syriac Archives
The Syriac Church and the Syriac people collected and maintained various archives about themselves, their church, and their history. As these archives are from many sources and they are vast in quantity, we will start by publishing lists of names of people, villages, churches, monasteries, or properties. Some of these lists are already published and some of them are new
Depository: Mardin Archive
Title: Survey Report of Syriac Christian Villages, Churches, and Monasteries in Ṭūr-ʿAbdīn at the end of the 19th century
Description: Seven parts survey report written by various people in different years that lists the names and location of various villages, churches, monasteries, and sacred places in the Tur-'Abdin area.
Author(s): Unknown
Date: 1882 - 1890
Language: Syriac with minimal Garshuni (Arabic written in Syriac script)
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Origin: Syriac Orthodox Church of the Forty Martyrs, Mardin
Published: Bcheiry, Iskandar. A Late Nineteenth-Century Survey Report of Christian Religious Sites in Ṭūrʿabdīn. Oriens Christianus 105 (2022), pp. 36-61.
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