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Emmaus (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/10652

a town near Jerusalem in Filasṭīn

Names

  • Arabic: عمواس = ʿAmawās 1
  • Latin: Emmaus 2-4
  • Latin: Nicopolis 5
  • Syriac: ܥܡܐܘܣ = ʿMʾWS 6
  • Syriac: ܢܝܩܘܦܘܠܝܣ = NYQWPWLYS 7

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 2, 5 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 3 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 4 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 6-7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 520 (4) 157 [Arabic].
  • 2Emmaus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 31. 32, IX 3, X 15. 16. [Latin].
  • 3Emmaus: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VI 20. 21. [Latin].
  • 4Emmaus: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XXXVI. [Latin].
  • 5Nicopolis: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IX 3, X 15. [Latin].
  • 6Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 116 [Syriac].
    • Emmaüs : J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 187; II, 2 [French].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 116 [Syriac].
    • Nicopolis: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 187, 189 (?), 289 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Emmaus” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/10652.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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