Circassians

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/13694

A group

Names

  • Arabic: الجركس = al-Jarkas 1
  • Greek: Τζαρκάσων = Tzarkasōn 2

Attributes

  • Group

Temporal Data

to Sort:
Show table of instances where this person is mentioned
Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014

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]), 2:225, 259 [Arabic].
    • al-Jarkas: 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, 480, 516 [English].
  • 2Circassians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.32 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Circassians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13694.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and gender assignment, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
Show additional credits