Constantine the Great

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/8634

ancient Roman emperor

Names

  • Arabic: قسطنطين بن ثيودسيوس = Qusṭanṭīn b. Thiyūdusiyūs 1
  • Arabic: قسطنطين بن هيلانة = Qusṭanṭīn b. Haylāna 2
  • Armenian: Կոստանդիանոս = Kostandianos 3-4
  • Hebrew: קאנסטינוס הגדול = QʾNSṬYNWS HGDWL 6
  • Syriac: ܩܘܣܛܢܛܝܢܘܣ = QWSṬΝṬYΝWS 7

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
Event mentioned by Aṛak‘el Baghishets‘i.3 before 1453late 15th C15561957
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i.4 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.5 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela6 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 236 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 48 (4) 347، 348 [Arabic].
  • 3H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 64-77 [Armenian].
    • Kostandianos: 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].
  • 4H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Kostandianos: 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].
  • 5Constantine the Great: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.5 [Greek with English translation].
  • 6Constantinus the Great: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 11 [Hebrew 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), 58 [Syriac].
    • Constantinus le Victorieux [= Constantin Ier]: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 88, 202, 205, 239-245, 254, 256-260, 265, 268, 269, 278; II, 16, 182, 285, 488; III, 115, 116, 278, 279 [French].
    • Constantine the Great: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 64 nn.204, 250, 254 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Constantine the Great” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 7, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/8634.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Liran Yadgar: matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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