Orhan

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/13934

early Ottoman ruler

Names

  • Arabic: اختيار الدين أرخان بك = Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Urkhān Bak 1
  • Arabic: أرخان بك = Urkhān Bak 2
  • Greek: Ὀρχάνης, Ὀρχάνεω, Ὀρχάνῃ, Ὀρχάνην = Orkhanēs, Orkhaneō, Orkhanē, Orkhanēn 3

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1-2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.3 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]), 2:197 [Arabic].
    • Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Urkhān Bak: 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, 451-2 [English].
  • 2Ibn 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]), 2:200, 201 [Arabic].
    • Urkhān Bak: 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, 454, 456 [English].
  • 3Orhan: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.18, 22, 23, 24, 26-28 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Laurel Kenner, and Josh Kuch, “Orhan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/13934.

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