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Adrianople (settlement)

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A city near Constantinople (modern Edirne)

Names

  • Armenian: Ատրանա = Atrana 1
  • Greek: Ἀδριανουπόλεως, Ἀδριανοῦ πόλει, Ἀδριανουπόλει, Ἀδριανούπολιν = Adrianoupoleōs, Adrianou polei, Adrianoupolei, Adrianoupolin 2
  • Greek: Ὀρεστιάδα = Orestiada 3
  • Syriac: ܐܕܪܘܦܠܝܣ = ʾDRWPLYS 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i. 1 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 2-3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Atrana: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 3) [English].
  • 2Adrianople: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.34-35, 37; 4.4, 7; 5.5; 6.57; 7.15, 17, 64; 8.31, 46, 69-71; 9.60, 77, 89; 10.15, 19 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Orestias: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.35 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 382 [Syriac].
    • Andrinople: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 361; III, 121, 282 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Adrianople” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 9, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15714.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
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