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Qaysāriyya (settlement)

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A coastal town in Filastin

Names

  • Arabic: قيسارية = Qaysāriyya 1-2
  • Hebrew: שיזיריאה = ŚYZYRYʾH 3
  • Hebrew: קיסריה = QYSRYH 4
  • Latin: Cesarea maritima 5
  • Latin: Cesarea Palestina 6-7
  • Latin: Cesarea Philippi 8
  • Latin: Pyrgus Stratonis 9
  • Latin: Stratonis turris 10-11
  • Persian: قیساریه = Qaysāriyya 12
  • Syriac: ܩܣܪܝܐ = QSRYʾ 13
  • Syriac: ܡܓܕܠܐ ܕܐܣܛܪܛܘܢ = MGDLʾ DʾSṬRṬWN 14

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
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 3-4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 5-6, 9 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 8 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 7, 10 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 11 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 12 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 13-14 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 151 (2) 273 (4) 299، 421، 469، 470 (5) 426 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 273, 286, 298, 302, 313 [Arabic].
    • Caesarea: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 262, 302, 308, 317 [English].
  • 3Caesarea: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Caesarea: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Cesarea maritima: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 3. [Latin].
  • 6Cesarea Palestina: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 3, VII 17, X 4. 5, XIII 12. [Latin].
  • 7Cesarea Palestina: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), LXV 1. 3. 7. LXVI. [Latin].
  • 8Cesarea Philippi: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VI 24. 28. [Latin].
  • 9Pyrgus Stratonis: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 4. [Latin].
  • 10Stratonis turris: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), LXV 8. [Latin].
  • 11Stratonis turris: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 2, 7. [Latin].
  • 12Caesarea: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 25 [Persian with English translation].
  • 13Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 98 [Syriac].
    • Césarée: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 137, 153, 154, 166, 186, 200, 300; II, 72, 148, 413, 430; III, 191, 404, 408 [French].
    • Caesarea: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 76, 450, 460 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 14Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 98 [Syriac].
    • Straton (Tour de): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 137, 153, 253; II, 430 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Qaysāriyya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/12268.

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; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: assistance with Arabic translation of names from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān and categorization 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, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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