Araxes River (river)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/15733

A place

Names

  • Armenian: Երասխ = Eraskh 1-2
  • Greek: Ἀράξης, Ἀράξην = Araxēs, Araxēn 3

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 1 1422142214221955
Event mentioned by Movsēs Artskets‘i. 2 1472147214721958
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1L. 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].
    • Erasx: 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].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 424b II: pp. 333-337 [Armenian].
    • Erasx: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1472 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3Araxes River: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.11, 21, 43, 66, 68 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Josh Kuch, “Araxes River” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15733.

Additional credit information:

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