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Franks

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Names

  • Arabic: الإفرنج = al-Ifranj 1
  • Arabic: أفرنجة = Ifranja 2
  • Arabic: الافرنج = al-Ifranj 3
  • Armenian: Ֆրանկ = Frank 4-6
  • Armenian: Ֆրանկ ազգն = Frank azgn 5
  • Armenian: Ֆրանկաց = Frankats‘ 5
  • Armenian: Ֆրանկաց ազգն = Frankats‘ azgn 4
  • Armenian: Ֆռանգ ազգն = Fṛang azgn 7
  • Armenian: Ֆռանկաց = Fṛankats‘ 8
  • Armenian: Փռանգաց = P‘ṛangats‘ 9
  • Armenian: Փռանքն = P‘ṛank‘n 10
  • Armenian: Յազգացըն Ֆըրանկին = Yazgats‘ěn Fěrankin 5
  • Hebrew: פרנקיש = PRNQYŚ 11
  • Syriac: ܦܪ̈ܢܓܝܐ = PRΝGYʾ 12

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Aṛak‘el Baghishets‘i.4 before 1453late 15th C15561957
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i.5 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe.6 1464146414641958
Event mentioned by Nersēs Krakts‘i.7 1335133513351950
Event mentioned by Dawit‘ Episkopos.8 1453145314531958
Event mentioned by Pawghos.9 1310131013101950
Event mentioned by Vardan Ghrimets‘i.10 1366136613661950
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela11 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian12 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 323، 371، 383، 467، 519 (2) 105، 264، 290، 473 (4) 266، 277 (5) 6، 16، 40، 119، 171، 207، 212 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 431 [Arabic].
    • Franks: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 442 [English].
  • 3Ibn 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]), 1:198, 258; 2:251 [Arabic].
    • Franks : 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), I, 37, 83; 2:251 [English].
  • 4H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 64-77 [Armenian].
    • Frank, Frankac‘ azgn: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 2) [English].
  • 5H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Frank, Frank azgn, Frankac‘, Yazgac‘ən Fərankin: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 3) [English].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 260 II: p. 216 [Armenian].
    • Frank: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1464 (no. 3) [English].
  • 7L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), nos. 338a, 338b, 338c, 338d pp. 273-275 [Armenian].
    • Fṙang azgn: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1335 (no. 6) [English].
  • 8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 38 II: pp. 30-31 [Armenian].
    • Fṙankac‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 1) [English].
  • 9L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 90a pp. 66-67 [Armenian].
    • P‘ṙangac‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1310 (no. 2) [English].
  • 10L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 577a p. 473 [Armenian].
    • P‘ṙank‘n: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1366 (no. 1) [English].
  • 11Franks: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 27, 34, 35 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 12Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 36 [Syriac].
    • Francs: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 56, 134; III, 18, 179, 182-84, 192, 193, 204, 205, 215-217, 222, 224, 226, 238, 244, 255, 275, 276, 280, 303, 318, 353, 375, 390, 403, 441 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Franks” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 7, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/1634.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Arabic transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan; Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
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