Mār Mattay (monastery)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/122

A monastery northeast of Mosul on the Alfof Mountain.

Names

  • Arabic: دير متى = Dayr Mattā 1
  • Syriac: ܥܘܡܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܡܬܝ = ʿWMRʾ DMRY MTY 2

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

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 532 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 414 [Syriac].
    • Mattai (couvent de Mar-): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 414, 417, 434, 435, 438, 460, 514;III, 5, 20, 29, 32, 34, 85, 86, 291, 340, 341, 402, 457, 461, 468, 470 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Mār Mattay” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/122.

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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