Beth Garmai

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Beth Garmai, (Arabic: باجرمي‎‎ Bājarmī, Persian/Kurdish: Garmakan, Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܓܪܡܐBêṯ Garmē, Latin and Greek Garamaea) is a historical region around the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.[1] It is located at southeast of the Little Zab, southwest of the mountains of Shahrazor, northeast of the Tigris and Hamrin Mountains, although sometimes including parts of southwest of Hamrin Mountains, and northwest of the Sirwan River.

Etymology

The name "Beth Garmai" or "Beth Garme" may be of Syriac origin which meaning "the house of bones",[2] which is thought to be a reference to bones of slaughtered Achaemenids after a decisive battle between Alexander the Great and Darius III on the plains between the Upper Zab and Diyala river.[3]

History

The region was a prosperous metropolitan province centered at Karkha D'Beth Slokh (Kirkuk), It had a substantial Nestorian Assyrian population until the fourteenth century when the region was conquered by Timurlane.[4]

See also

References

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