Qurṭuba (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/11681

(modern Cordoba)

Names

  • Arabic: قرطبة = Qurṭuba 1
  • Greek: Κορδύβη = Kordybē 2

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 140، 152، 174، 195، 202، 240، 244، 264، 320، 326، 333، 406، 426، 518 (2) 22، 33، 136، 195، 328 (3) 26، 48، 133، 146، 161، 309، 357، 365، 366 (4) 31، 39، 195، 247، 304، 305، 324، 402، 463، 481 (5) 7، 10، 26، 39، 77، 92، 222 [Arabic].
  • 2Cordoba: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 5.72 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “Qurṭuba” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/11681.

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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; and categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
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