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Michael the Syrian (Arabic: ميخائيل السرياني, romanized: Mīkhaʾēl el Sūryani:),(Classical Syriac: ܡܺܝܟ݂ܳܐܝܶܠ ܣܽܘܪܝܳܝܳܐ, romanized: Mīkhoʾēl Sūryoyo), died AD 1199, also known as Michael the Great (Syriac: ܡܺܝܟ݂ܳܐܝܶܠ ܪܰܒ݁ܳܐ, romanized: Mīkhoʾēl Rabo) or Michael Syrus or Michael the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, [1] was a ...
Map showing the ancient sites of Upper Mesopotamia and Syria. Kfar Tab is located on the west. Kfar Tab (Syriac: ܟܦܪܛܐܒ Kafrṭāb) was a diocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church near Apamea in Syria, attested in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Four of its bishops are mentioned in the lists of Michael the Syrian.
John was born at the village of Beth ‘Ellaya, [6] and became a monk at either the monastery of Gubo Baroyo, according to the Chronicle of Michael the Syrian, [7] or the monastery of Eusebona, as per Bar Hebraeus' Ecclesiastical History, [8] where he studied Greek, Syriac, and theology. [3]
Michael the Syrian appended to his Chronicle a list of bishops of Jerusalem from James, brother of Jesus, down to his own time. It is identical to the Register for the bishops after 793. The bishops were of metropolitan rank. [8] In the following list, a date range like 792×818 means "ordained between 792 and 818".
This is a list of modern individuals. For early Christian authors, see List of Syriac writers.For ancient Assyrians, see Category:Ancient Assyrians.. The following is a list of notable ethnic Assyrians.
The Syrian-led party was led by Jadid and his supporters and hailed Zaki al-Arsuzi, the founder of the Arab Ba'ath in 1940, as the father of Ba'athist thought, while the Iraqi-led party led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein, still proclaimed Aflaq to be the founder of Ba'athist thought. [47]
The Syriac Orthodox Church was previously known as the Syrian Orthodox Church until a Holy Synod in 2000 voted to change it to Syriac, thus distinguishing from the Arabs. Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim wrote a letter to the Syriacs in 2000 urging them to register in the census as Syriac with a C , and not Syrian with an N to distinguish the group.
According to Michael the Syrian, his troops consisted of 3,000 "starving and destitute men". [6] It may have included a proportion of Christians. In the year of his revolt, Syrian agriculture had been ruined due to a severely cold and dry winter followed by an especially stormy spring during which the harvests were wiped out by locusts.