- 'the
island city'.
Cizre was
known in
Syriac as
Gāzartā d'Beṯ Zabdaï (island of Zabdicene), from '
gazarta' (island) and 'Beṯ Zabdaï' (Zabdicene). Historical...
- The
Chaldean diocese of
Gazarta,
named for the town of
Jezira (modern Cizre),
known in
Syriac as
Gazarta d'Beth Zabdai, was
established on a
stable basis...
-
Chaldean dioceses of Amid,
Siirt and
Gazarta and the
metropolitans Addai Scher of
Siirt and Philippe-Jacques
Abraham of
Gazarta were
killed in 1915. In the 21st...
-
metropolitan of
Gazarta. He was
probably transferred to
Gazarta not long
beforehand because its
previous bishop had died. A
metropolitan Gabriel of
Gazarta is mentioned...
- (Diyarbakır), he
consecrated two
metropolitans and
three other bishops (for
Gazarta,
Hesna d'Kifa, Amid,
Mardin and Seert). For his part, Shemʿon VII Ishoʿyahb...
-
transliterated Djazirah, Djezirah, Jazirah)[citation needed] and the
Syriac variant Gāzartā or
Gozarto (ܓܙܪܬܐ). The
Euphrates and
Tigris rivers transform Mesopotamia...
- "Al-Jazeera",
means "island" and has its
origin in the
Syriac ܓܵܙܲܪܬܵܐ
gāzartā.[citation needed] lāzaward (لازورد) is
taken from
Persian لاژورد lājvard...
-
nominally with
jurisdiction also over Amid and Mardin, and
Joseph for
Gazarta. Ishoʿyahb was
probably unable to
exercise his
authority in Amid and Mardin...
- background. He
became the
Syrian Catholic eparch of
Gazarta (modern Cizre).
Malke was
killed in
Gazarta during the ****yrian
genocide after he
refused to...
- from the
Malabar Coast in
India traveled to
Mesopotamia and
arrived in
Gazarta,
bringing appeals to the
hierarchy of the
Church of the East, and asking...
