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Justinian I

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/13103

Byzantine emperor

Names

  • Armenian: Ուստիանոս = Ustianos 1
  • Armenian: Յուստինիանոս = Yustinianos 2
  • Greek: Ἰουστινιανὸς = Ioustinianos 3
  • Syriac: ܝܘܣܛܝܢܝܢܘܣ = YWSṬYΝYΝWS 4

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Aṛak‘el Baghishets‘i.1 before 1453late 15th C15561957
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i.2 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 64-77 [Armenian].
    • Ustianos: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 2) [English].
  • 2H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Yustinianos: 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].
  • 3Justinian: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 4.19 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 280 [Syriac].
    • Jüstiniën Ier : J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 190, 192, 200, 201, 203, 205, 206, 235, 243, 248, 252, 269, 271, 272, 281, 282, 339, 420 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Justinian I” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 7, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13103.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; 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
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
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