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al-Maḥalla (settlement)

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A city in Egypt

Names

  • Arabic: المحلة = al-Maḥalla 1
  • Arabic: محلة شرقيون = Maḥallat Sharqiyyūn 2
  • Arabic: المحلة الكبرى = al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā 3
  • Hebrew: לממנה = LMMNH 4

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-3 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 268، 325 (4) 43 (5) 63، 196 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 63 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 268 (5) 63 [Arabic].
  • 4Lammanah: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 103 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Liran Yadgar, “al-Maḥalla” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/13229.

Additional credit information:

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