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Nābulus (settlement)

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A famous city in Palestine

Names

  • Arabic: نابلس = Nābulus 1-2
  • Hebrew: נפלוש = NPLWŚ 3
  • Hebrew: שכם = ShKM 4
  • Latin: Neapolis 5-6
  • Latin: Sichem 7-8
  • Latin: Sichem antiqua 9
  • Syriac: ܢܐܦܘܠܝܣ = NʾPWLYS 10
  • Syriac: ܫܟܝܡ = ShKYM 11
  • Syriac: ܢܒܘܠܘܣ = NBWLWS 12

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 Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3-4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 5, 7, 9 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 6, 8 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 10-12 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 478، 522، 526 (2) 101، 159، 196، 202 (3) 184، 300 (4) 47، 63، 123، 167، 177، 319، 414، 459، 469، 484 (5) 9، 104، 248، 425، 427 [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]), 1:249 [Arabic].
    • Nābulus: 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), I, 82 [English].
  • 3Nablous: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Shechem: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Neapolis: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 22. 25. 48. [Latin].
  • 6Neapolis: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 1. XIV 1. [Latin].
  • 7Sichem: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 20, VII 20 -22. 25-27. 30. 31. 48, VIII 1. 5. [Latin].
  • 8Sichem: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIII 1. [Latin].
  • 9Sichem antiqua: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 25. 26. [Latin].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 110 [Syriac].
    • Neapolis (= Naplouse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 178; II, 72 [French].
  • 11Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 20 [Syriac].
    • Sichem: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 35, 63, 69 [French].
  • 12Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 42 [Syriac].
    • Naplouse (en Palestine): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 67; II, 191; III, 246 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Nābulus” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/14370.

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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; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration 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
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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