Indians

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/13782

A group

Names

  • Greek: Ἰνδῶν, Ἰνδοὺς = Indōn, Indous 1
  • Greek: ἔθνος Ἰνδικὸν = ethnos Indikon 2
  • Persian: هندوان = Hinduwān 3
  • Syriac: ܗܢܕ̈ܘܝܐ = HΝDWYʾ 4

Attributes

  • Group

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.1-2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Indians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.4; 3.24, 49, 64, 66, 68-70 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Indians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.29 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Indians: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 103 [Persian with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
    • Indiens: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 16, 31, 148; II, 183-185, 251 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Indians” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13782.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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