Seleucus I Nicator

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/4732

A person

Names

  • Arabic: سلوقوس الملك = Salūqūs al-Malik 1
  • Arabic: سلوقس الملك = Salūqus al-Malik 2
  • Hebrew: סליקוס = SLYQWS 3
  • Syriac: ܣܠܘܩܘܣ ܢܝܩܛܘܪ = SLWQWS ΝYQṬWR 4

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 128، 227، 266 (2) 282 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 106 [Arabic].
  • 3Seleucus: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 18 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 82 [Syriac].
    • Seleucus [Ier]: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 108, 116, 117, 118; III, 278, 279 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Seleucus I Nicator” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/4732.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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