Ṭūr ʿAbdīn (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/10020

region in the north of Mesopotamia

Names

  • Arabic: طور عبدين = Ṭūr ʿAbdīn 1
  • Syriac: ܛܘܪܥܒܕܝܢ = ṬWRʿBDYN 2

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 269 (4) 48 (5) 39 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 393 [Syriac].
    • Ṭour 'Abdîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 378, 477, 492, 506, 507, 509, 516, 520; III, 50, 107, 175, 226, 255, 268, 326, 358, 362, 367, 382, 383, 401, 481 [French].
    • Ṭūr-ʿAbdīn: 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), xix, 42 & n.128, 150, 208, 232 & n.666, 364, 368, 372 & n.1040, 382, 410, 412, 444 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Ṭūr ʿAbdīn” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/10020.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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