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Syriac Christians

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A group

Names

  • Armenian: Ասորիք = Asorik‘ 1
  • Armenian: Ասորոց = Asorots‘ 2-3
  • Hebrew: ארמים = ʾRMYM 4
  • Hebrew: שוריאנים = ŚWRYʾNYM 5

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Event mentioned by Astuatsatur.1 1449144914491955
Event mentioned by T‘adēos.2 1303130313031950
Event mentioned by T‘uma.3 1444144414441955
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela4-5 before c.1170c.117313th C1907

Sources

  • 1L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 704 I: pp. 622-629 [Armenian].
    • Asorik‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1449 (no. 1) [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 16a p. 15 [Armenian].
    • Asoroc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1303 (no. 3) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 639 I: p. 567 [Armenian].
    • Asoroc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1444 (no. 3) [English].
  • 4Syrians: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 34 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Syrians: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 107 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Liran Yadgar, “Syriac Christians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13564.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
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