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Qabq (mountain)

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Caucasus mountains

Names

  • Arabic: قبق = Qabq 1
  • Arabic: قبج = Qabj 2
  • Greek: Καύκασον, Καυκάσου = Kaukason, Kaukasou 3-4
  • Latin: Caucasus 5
  • Latin: montes caspii 6
  • Syriac: ܩܐܘܩܣ̈ܝܐ = QʾWQSYʾ 7
  • Syriac: ܩܐܣܦܝܐ = QʾSPYʾ 8
  • Syriac: ܬܪܥܐ ܕܛܘܪ̈ܝܐ = TRʿʾ DṬWRYʾ 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 Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Event mentioned by Georgios Amiroutzes. 4 before 14701464-1470mid-late 15th C2014
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 Michael the Syrian 7-9 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 64، 160، 216، 245، 295، 304، 342، 345 (3) 367 (4) 307، 446 (5) 11، 180 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 305 [Arabic].
  • 3Caucasus: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.24, 34, 37 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Caucasus: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.35 [Greek with English translation].
  • 5Caucasus: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 1. [Latin].
  • 6montes caspii: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 37. [Latin].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 80 [Syriac].
    • Caucase: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 119; III, 444 [French].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 385 [Syriac].
    • Qaspiâ: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 364 [French].
  • 9Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 385 [Syriac].
    • Ṭourayê (Porte des): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 364 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Qabq” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/11559.

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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, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • 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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