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Qarqīsiyā (settlement)

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A town on the Khabur River in western Jazira

Names

  • Arabic: قرقيسيا = Qarqīsiyā 1-2
  • Hebrew: קרקסיה = QRQSYH 3
  • Syriac: ܩܐܪܩܝܣ = QʾRQYS 4
  • Syriac: ܩܪܟܝܣܘܢ = QRKYSWN 5

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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
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 4-5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 384 (2) 334 (3) 378 (4) 240، 328 (5) 146، 351، 421 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 128, 129, 163, 170, 177, 178, 182, 183, 187, 425 [Arabic].
    • Qirqīsiyā/Carchemish: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 114, 149, 155, 162, 163, 169, 170, 173, 432 [English].
  • 3Karkisiya: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 53 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 81 [Syriac].
    • Carchis [= Circesium]: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 121 [French].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 95 [Syriac].
    • Circesium: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 148; II, 459, 469, 475; III, 28, 48, 497 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Qarqīsiyā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/11701.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; 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
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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