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Slavs

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A group

Names

  • Arabic: الصقالبة = al-Ṣaqāliba 1, 4
  • Arabic: الصلاوية = al-Ṣalāwiyya 2
  • Arabic: السقالبة = al-Saqāliba 3
  • Greek: Ἰλλυριῶν, Ἰλλυριοὺς = Illyriōn, Illyrious 5
  • Persian: صقلابیان = Ṣiqlābiyān 6
  • Syriac: ܐܣܩ̈ܠܒܐ = ʾSQLBʾ 7
  • Syriac: ܐܣܩܠ̈ܒܐ = ʾSQLBʾ 8

Attributes

  • Group

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.3-4 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.5 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw6 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian7-8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 21، 32، 485 (5) 173 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 488 [Arabic].
  • 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 287 [Arabic].
    • Slavs: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 285, 423 [English].
  • 4Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 416 [Arabic].
    • Slavs: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 285, 423 [English].
  • 5Illyrians: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.29, 39; 3.26, 31; 4.21; 5.40; 10.16-17 [Greek with English translation].
  • 6Slavs: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 54 [Persian with English translation].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 10 [Syriac].
    • Slaves: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 19 [French].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 327 [Syriac].
    • Esclavons: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 269, 347, 353, 361, 470, 473 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Slavs” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/5304.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw'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 and matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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