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Eretna

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ruler of Sivas

Names

  • Arabic: أرتنا = Artanā 1
  • Armenian: Յարաթին = Yarat‘in 2
  • Armenian: Յորաթնայ = Yorat‘nay 3

Attributes

  • Male
  • Floruit: 1343

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Nersēs.2 1343134313431950
Event mentioned by Yovhannēs Naghash.3 1346134613461950

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:73, 177, 179 [Arabic].
    • Artanā: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 341, 433, 435 [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 414a p. 334 [Armenian].
    • Yarat‘in: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1343 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 433 p. 346 [Armenian].
    • Yorat‘nay: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1346 (no. 1) [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Eretna” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13083.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
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