Erzincan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Erzincan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Sinclair, Thomas A.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061531
Doc. NO	:	ALei1928
Main Entry	:	Sinclair, Thomas A.
Title & Author	:	Erzincan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Sinclair, Thomas A.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,184 words)
Abstract	:	Erzincan (Armn. Erznkay; Pers. Erznka; Ar. Arzinjān) is a city on a plain in the northeast of Anatolia (present-day Turkey); through the plain flows the upper Euphrates or (Turk.) Kara Su. The city’s walled area took the form of a rectangle some 250 metres long and oriented northwest to southeast. From about 495/1100, a Turkish dynasty, the Mengücekoğulları/Mangujakids, occupied Erzincan, Kamākh/Kemah, and Divrīk/Divriği, and in this period Erzincan became a minor centre of Muslim culture. In 625/1228, the city, as well as the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1928.pdf