Parthians

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/13601

A group

Names

  • Armenian: Պարթեւաց = Part‘ewats‘ 1
  • Greek: Πάρθων = Parthōn 2
  • Syriac: ܦܪ̈ܬܘܝܐ = PRTWYʾ 3

Attributes

  • Group

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Step‘anos.1 1476147614761958
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 496 II: pp. 393-396 [Armenian].
    • Part‘ewac‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1476 (no. 2) [English].
  • 2Parthians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.9, 10 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 13 [Syriac].
    • Parthes: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 24, 25, 32, 119-121, 135, 141, 147, 148, 182 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Parthians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13601.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; 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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