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Roxana

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/15294

daughter of Darius, wife of Alexander the Great

Names

  • Syriac: ܪܘܫܢܩ ܒܪܬܗ ܕܕܪܝܘܫ = RWShΝQ BRTH DDRYWSh 1

Attributes

  • Female

Temporal Data

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian1 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 75 [Syriac].
    • Roxane: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 113 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Roxana” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/15294.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: gender assignment, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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