Mūqān (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/14257

A plain near the Caspian Sea

Names

  • Arabic: موقان = Mūqān 1
  • Armenian: Մուղան = Mughan 2
  • Latin: Moganum 3

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 Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 2 1422142214221955
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 3 c. 1289c.129014th C1864

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 65، 129، 152، 342 (4) 454 (5) 93، 225 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 300, 300b I: pp. 272-288 [Armenian].
    • Mułan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1422 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3Moganum: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIV 13. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Margaret Gaida, “Mūqān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/14257.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; and matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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