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Diyar Bakr (region)

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The medieval Arabic name of the northernmost of the three provinces of the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), the other two being Diyar Mudar and Diyar Rabi'a.

Names

  • Arabic: ديار بكر = Diyār Bakr 1-2
  • Armenian: Դիարբակ = Diarbak 3
  • Hebrew: די אר כלך = DY ʾR KLK 4
  • Persian: دیار‌بکر = Diyār Bakr 5

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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 T‘ovma Metsop‘ets‘i. 3 1435143514351955
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 5 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 153، 259، 313 (2) 102، 208، 333، 408، 448، 494 (3) 95، 151، 304، 391 (4) 35، 359 (5) 235، 392 [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]), 2:25, 73, 78 [Arabic].
    • Diyār Bakr: 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, 289, 341, 346 [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 495a I: p. 452 [Armenian].
    • Diarbak: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1435 (no. 3) [English].
  • 4Diyar Kalach: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 62 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Diyarbekir: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 9, 14 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Diyar Bakr” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/10.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Evan Willford: abstract; Wikipedia matching; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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