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Armenians

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A group

Names

  • Arabic: الأرمن = al-Arman 1
  • Armenian: Հայկան ազգի = Haykan azgi 2
  • Armenian: Հայկեան ազգ = Haykean azg 3
  • Armenian: Սեռս Հայկայ = Seṛs Haykay 4
  • Greek: Ἀρμένιοι, Ἀρμενίων, Ἀρμενίους = Armenioi, Armeniōn, Armenious 5-6
  • Latin: Armenii 7
  • Latin: Armeni 8
  • Persian: ارمنیان = Armaniyān 9
  • Syriac: ܐܪ̈ܡܢܝܐ = ʾRMΝYʾ 10

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Yovannēs.2 1333133313331950
Event mentioned by Grigor Erēts‘.3 1335133513351950
Event mentioned by Ṛstakēs.4 1315131513151950
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.5 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Event mentioned by Georgios Amiroutzes.6 before 14701464-1470mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion7-8 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw9 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian10 before 11991195-1199?15982009

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]), 1:284-285; 2:183 [Arabic].
    • Armenians : 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), I, 104; II, 437 [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 315 p. 255 [Armenian].
    • Haykan azgi: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1333 (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. 332 p. 268 [Armenian].
    • Haykean azg: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1335 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 151 pp. 114-115 [Armenian].
    • Seṙs Haykay: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1315 (no. 2) [English].
  • 5Armenians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 2.8, 9; 3.18, 37, 40, 50, 71-72; 7.69; 9.26 [Greek with English translation].
  • 6Armenians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.32 [Greek with English translation].
  • 7Armenii: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 5. 9. [Latin].
  • 8Armeni: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 18, III 12. [Latin].
  • 9Armenians: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 8 [Persian with English translation].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
    • Arméniens: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 15, 31, 32, 119, 120, 194, 204; II, 282, 314, 371, 414, 417, 474, 482, 492; III, 132, 133, 141, 158, 169, 184, 187, 196, 198, 205, 206, 226, 238, 240, 244, 255, 256, 313, 314, 336, 346, 361, 413, 450 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Armenians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13583.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; 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
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
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