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Medes

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Names

  • Greek: Μήδων, Μήδους = Mēdōn, Mēdous 1
  • Latin: Medi 2-3
  • Syriac: ܡ̈ܕܝܐ = MDYʾ 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.1 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion2 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce3 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Medes: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.4, 9; 3.23, 71 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Medi: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2, XIII 5. [Latin].
  • 3Medi: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 37. 38, XI 13. [Latin].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 8 [Syriac].
    • Mèdes: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 15, 19, 25, 31, 32, 77, 99, 101, 102, 119, 120, 147, 148, 254 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Medes” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13891.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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