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Adriatic Sea (open water)

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Separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula

Names

  • Greek: Ἰονίου, Ἰονίῳ, Ἰόνιον = Ioniou, Ioniō, Ionion 1
  • Hebrew: ים ארץ יון = YM ʾRṢ YWN 2
  • Syriac: ܐܕܪܝܘܣ ܝܡܐ = ʾDRYWS YMʾ 3
  • Syriac: ܐܕܪܝܐܣ = ʾDRYʾS 4

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Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 1 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 2 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3-4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Adriatic Sea: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.29, 38, 39; 2.3, 10; 3.31; 4.20-23, 38, 41; 5.39, 42, 61, 64; 6.54; 7.29, 34; 8.65, 68; 10.16-17, 20, 28, 38, 48 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Adriatic Sea: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 15 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 152 [Syriac].
    • Adriatique (Mer): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 292; III, 62 [French].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 414 [Syriac].
    • Adrias: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 414 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Adriatic Sea” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15715.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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