Kashkar, also known as Kaskar, (Classical Syriac: ܟܫܟܪ), was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its name appears to originate from Syriac ܟܪܟܐkarḵa meaning "citadel" or "town".[1] Other sources connect it to ܟܫܟܪܘܬܐkaškarūṯá "farming".[2] It was originally built on the Tigris, across the river from the later medieval city of Wasit.
The city was originally a significant Sasanian city built on the west bank of the Tigris where Greek speaking deportees from north-western Syria were settled by Shapur I in the mid third century A.D.[3]
According to Syriac tradition, Mar Mari is said to have preached and performed miracles and converted many of its inhabitants to Christianity.[3] Kashkar became an important centre of Christianity in lower Mesopotamia and had its own diocese which lay under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.[3]
During a flood the Tigris burst its banks leaving Kashkar on its east bank. The medieval city of Wasit was built on the west bank of the new channel by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, who drew off the population of Kashkar, which eventually turned it to a ghost town.[1] By the middle of the twelfth century Kashkar ceased to exist as a bishopric see.[3]
^ abMirecki, BeDuhn; Jason, Paul Allan (2007). Frontiers of faith: the Christian encounter with Manichaeism in the Acts of Archelaus. BRILL. p. 10. ISBN 978-90-04-16180-1.
^قزانجي, فؤاد يوسف. مدينة كشكر: أول مدينة مسيحية في بلاد الرافدين (in Arabic). Zahrira.net. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
^ abcdHarrak, Amir (2005). The acts of Mār Mārī the apostle. BRILL. p. 69. ISBN 978-90-04-13050-0.
Kashkar, also known as Kaskar, (Classical Syriac: ܟܫܟܪ), was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its name appears to originate from Syriac ܟܪܟܐ karḵa meaning...
of Kashkar, sometimes called Kaskar, was the senior diocese in the Church of the East's Province of the Patriarch. It see was in the city of Kashkar. The...
Abraham the Great of Kashkar was the father of the Assyrian monastic revival in the 6th century. He is a doctor and saint of the Church of the East. He...
Abraham (Mar Oraham) of Kashkar was a legendary person of the Church of the East, from the family of Jacob, the brother of Jesus, who is conventionally...
Chitral (Khowar: ݯھیترار, romanized: ćhitrār, lit. 'field') is a city situated on the Chitral River in northern area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It serves as...
Gregory of Kashkar (died c. 611) was the bishop of Kashkar and then from about 596 the metropolitan of Nisibis in the Church of the East. His hagiography...
Israel of Kashkar was briefly an anti-patriarch of the Church of the East in 877. His name is not included in most traditional lists of patriarchs of...
𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩), was an Iranian nobleman who served as the Sasanian governor of Kashkar. Narsi is first mentioned in 628, he, along with his brother Mah-Adhur...
Abdisho and Abda were two successive bishops of Kashkar who were martyred along with 38 companions in 376 during the Forty-Year Persecution in the Sasanian...
Lower Chitral District (Urdu: ضلع چترال زیریں, Khowar: موڑی ݯھیترارو ضلع, Pashto: ښکته چترال ولسوالۍ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
Racing Kashgar, an oasis city in Xinjiang, China Kaskar (disambiguation) Kashkar (disambiguation) Kashgar (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
the Arabs [AD 740/1] and was succeeded by Aba Bar Brikh Sebyaneh from Kashkar. This man was well read in church literature and dialectic, wrote a commentary...
Abraham I may refer to: Abraham of Kashkar, a legendary primate of the Church of the East, 159–171 CE Abraham I of Jerusalem, the first Armenian Patriarch...
Mar Malke, and Mar Samuel. The next was the most famous, Mar Abraham of Kashkar, also known as the Great Monastery, which was founded in the latter part...
as a result. But the reforms were soon reverted. Abraham the Great of Kashkar founded a new monastery on Mt. Izla, and he and his successor Babai the...
controversy over Henana and the monastic revival initiated by Abraham of Kashkar, supported by Babai, diminished the school's influence, and the spread...
priest, and Christian saint of Mesopotamia ? – 366 Abraham the Great of Kashkar Monk and saint of the Church of the East 492 – 586 Albertus Magnus Medieval...
century, Greek-speaking deportees from north-western Syria were settled in Kashkar, Mesopotamia. After the Arab incursion into Persia during Shapur II's reign...
region) or Qāshqārī. Among the Pashtuns and Badakhshanis it is known as Kashkār. Another name, used by Leitner in 1880, is Arnyiá or Arniya, derived from...
Meshi Olinski as Young Tsili Adam Tsekhman as Marek Lea Koenig Andrey Kashkar Yelena Yaralova "Four Clips from Amos Gitai's New Venice Fest Film 'Tsili'"...
Christians persecuted (see Abdecalas, Acepsimas of Hnaita and Abda of Kashkar). This was a reaction against the Christianization of the Roman Empire...
702 CE on the west bank of the Tigris across from the historical city of Kashkar. Al-Hajjaj is said to have taken the doors for the citadel and the main...
and founded a monastery there. He also founded another monastery near Kashkar which was assigned to the Syriac-speaking community in order to resolve...
monasteries of the nearby Tur Abdin, led by the reforms of Abraham the Great of Kashkar, founder of the "Great Monastery" of Mount Izla, underwent substantial...
Global Information