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Mār Ḥananyā (monastery)

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A monastery outside of Mardin and the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate from 1293 CE until after World War I.

Names

  • Arabic: دير الزعفران = Dayr al-Zaʿfarān 1
  • Arabic: عمر الزعفران = ʿUmr al-Zaʿfarān 2
  • Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܚܢܢܝܐ = DYRʾ DMRY ḤNNYʾ 3

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 511 (4) 154 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 154 [Arabic].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 491 [Syriac].
    • Ḥanania: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 20, 313, 326, 327, 331, 337, 341, 343, 358, 370, 374, 385, 386, 399, 463, 465, 469, 479, 481 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Mār Ḥananyā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/120.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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