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Ṭūr Zaytā (mountain)

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Mount of Olives in Jerusalem

Names

  • Arabic: طور زيتا = Ṭūr Zaytā 1
  • Arabic: الزيتون = al-Zaytūn 2
  • Arabic: جبل طور = Jabal Ṭūr 3
  • Hebrew: הר הזיתים = HR HZYTYM 4
  • Latin: mons oliueti 5-8
  • Syriac: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܙܝ̈ܬܐ = ṬWRʾ DZYTʾ 9

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 Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 3 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 5 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 6 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 7 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 8 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 9 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 47 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 69 [Arabic].
  • 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 286, 327 [Arabic].
    • Mt. of Olives: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 284, 336 [English].
  • 4Mount of Olives: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 37 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5mons oliueti: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 5, VII 60. 61, VIII 1. 5. 6. [Latin].
  • 6mons oliueti: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 50. 51. 54. V 22. [Latin].
  • 7mons oliueti: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIV 9 XXV 1. 5, XXVI XXVII 1, L 1. [Latin].
  • 8mons oliueti: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 6, 3. - 8, 1. 8. [Latin].
  • 9Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 100 [Syriac].
    • Oliviers (mont des): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 158, 246, 289 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ṭūr Zaytā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/10018.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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