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St. George

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A person

Names

  • Arabic: جرجيس النبي = Jirjīs al-Nabī 1
  • Arabic: جرجيس = Jirjīs 2
  • Armenian: Գէորգ, Սուրբ = Gēorg, Surb 3
  • Latin: Sanctus Georgius 4-7

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Grigor Angeghakoydets‘i.3 1459145914591958
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce5 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone6 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg7 1211-1212c.122216th C1864

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 223 [Arabic].
  • 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]), 2:83 [Arabic].
    • Jirjīs: 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, 349 [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 156a II: p. 119 [Armenian].
    • Gēorg, Surb: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1459 (no. 4) [English].
  • 4Sanctus Georgius: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 19. [Latin].
  • 5Sanctus Georgius: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), III 6. [Latin].
  • 6Sanctus Georgius: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), LXII 2. [Latin].
  • 7Sanctus Georgius: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 3, 1. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “St. George” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/2386.

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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; and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: Arabic collection from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Margaret Gaida: matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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