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ʿAyn Zarbā (settlement)

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A town in the Thughur near al-Massisa

Names

  • Arabic: عين زربى = ʿAyn Zarbā 1
  • Armenian: Անարզաբ = Anarzab 2
  • Armenian: Անարզաբա = Anarzaba 3
  • Latin: Nauersa 4
  • Syriac: ܐܢܐܙܪܒܐ = ʾNʾZRBʾ 5

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 2 1307130713071950
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 3 1468146814681958
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 4 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 133 (2) 79، 349 (3) 297 (4) 177 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 72 p. 55 [Armenian].
    • Anarzab: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1307 (no. 6) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 349 II: pp. 273-274 [Armenian].
    • Anarzaba: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1468 (no. 4) [English].
  • 4Nauersa: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 23, 1. - 24, 8. [Latin].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 125 [Syriac].
    • Anazarbus: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 242; II, 183; III, 16, 121, 134, 139, 161, 173, 179, 227, 282, 332 [French].
    • Anazarba: 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), 14 & n.34, 38, 38 n.119, 52, 160 n.472, 258 n.610, 260 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “ʿAyn Zarbā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/10785.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, 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
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
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