Hamza the Falconer

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Ottoman general

Names

Greek: Χαμουζᾶν τὸν ἱερακοφόρον, Χαμουζᾷ τῷ ἱερακοφόρῳ = Khamouzan ton hierakophoron, Khamouza tō hierakophorō 1
Greek: Χαμουζᾶν τὸν Ζενεβίσαν = Khamouzan ton Zenebisan 2
Greek: Χαμουζᾶς, Χαμουζᾶ, Χαμουζᾶν = Khamouzas, Khamouza, Khamouzan 3

Attributes

Male

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.1-3	before 1464	1464-1468	mid-late 15th C	2014

Sources

1Hamza the Falconer: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.21, 85 [Greek with English translation].
2Hamza Zenebishi: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.43 [Greek with English translation].
3Hamza: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.56, 85-88 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “Hamza the Falconer” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13764.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and gender assignment, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history

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