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al-Mariyya (settlement)

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modern Almería in al-Andalus

Names

  • Arabic: المرية = al-Mariyya 1
  • Arabic: ألمرية = Almariyya 2
  • Greek: Ἀλμερίαν = Almerian 3

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 2 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 262، 263، 338، 526 (2) 460 (3) 364 (5) 22، 119 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 4:223 [Arabic].
    • Almarīya: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), IV, 943 [English].
  • 3Almería: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 5.76 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “al-Mariyya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/13667.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
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