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Greeks

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Names

  • Arabic: اليونان = al-Yūnān 1
  • Armenian: Յունաց = Yunats‘ 2
  • Armenian: Յունական = Yunakan 2
  • Hebrew: יוונים = YWWNYM 3, 8
  • Hebrew: יונים = YWNYM 4
  • Hebrew: יון = YWN 5
  • Hebrew: גריגוש = GRYGWŚ 6
  • Hebrew: גריזיאנוש = GRYZYʾNWŚ 7
  • Latin: Greci 9
  • Syriac: ܝܘ̈ܢܝܐ = YWΝYʾ 10
  • Syriac: ܒܢ̈ܝ ܝܘܢ = BΝY YWΝ 11

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i.2 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela3-8 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion9 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian10-11 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 455 (2) 303 [Arabic].
  • 2H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Yunac‘, Yunakan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 3) [English].
  • 3Greeks: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 34, 104, 105 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Greeks: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 14 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Greeks: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 16 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 6Greeks: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 26, 106 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Greece: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 19 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 8Javanim: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 26 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 9Greci: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9, II 18. III 12, VII 17. 40, XII 6, XIII 4. [Latin].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
    • Grecs: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 15, 19, 32; III, 136, 151, 238, 304, 334, 336, 369-372, 402, 403, 470 [French].
  • 11Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 13 [Syriac].
    • Yavan (descendants de): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 24 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Greeks” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 7, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12658.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
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