Athens (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/15743

A place

Names

  • Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Ἀθηνῶν, Ἀθήναζε, Ἀθήνας = Athēnai, Athēnōn, Athēnaze, Athēnas 1
  • Greek: Ἀττικῆς = Attikēs 2
  • Syriac: ܐܬܝܢܣ = ʾTYNS 3

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Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 1-2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Athens: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 4.19, 49, 56-59; 6.49-50, 52; 7.17-18; 9.14-18, 59 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Athens: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 6.47, 51 [Greek 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), 26 [Syriac].
    • Athènes: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 41, 50, 56, 92, 105-109, 116, 134, 170, 172, 182, 267, 278, 279, 282, 300; III, 13 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Athens” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15743.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • 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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