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Qubrus (island)

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Cyprus

Names

  • Arabic: قبرس = Qubrus 1-2
  • Armenian: Կիպրոս = Kipros 3
  • Greek: Κύπρος, Κύπρου, Κύπρον = Kypros, Kyprou, Kypron 4
  • Hebrew: קפרוס = QPRWS 5
  • Hebrew: קורפוס = QWRPWS 6
  • Latin: Cyprus 7-8
  • Syriac: ܩܘܦܪܘܣ = QWPRWS 9-11

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Gaspar Hamt‘ets‘i. 3 1426142614261955
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 4 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 5-6 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 7 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 8 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 9-11 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 232، 345، 462 (3) 245 (4) 144، 256، 305، 382 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 303, 313 [Arabic].
    • Cyprus: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 308, 318 [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 373 I: p. 354 [Armenian].
    • Kipros: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1426 (no. 6) [English].
  • 4Cyprus: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.42 [Greek with English translation].
  • 5Cyprus: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 105 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 6Cyprus: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 25 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Cyprus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 12. [Latin].
  • 8Cyprus: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 27, 1. 13. - 28. 15. [Latin].
  • 9Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 10 [Syriac].
    • Cypre: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 18, 117, 133, 134, 149, 315; II, 3, 77, 82, 244, 441, 442, 470, 473; III, 315, 402, 403, 407 [French].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 162 [Syriac].
    • Chypre: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 315 [French].
  • 11Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 78 [Syriac].
    • Cypre: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 117 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Qubrus” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/11551.

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  • 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; categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; 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
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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