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Bithynia (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/15761

A place

Names

  • Greek: Βιθυνίας, Βιθυνίᾳ, Βιθυνίαν = Bithynias, Bithynia, Bithynian 1
  • Syriac: ܒܝܬܘܢܝܐ = BYTWNYʾ 2

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

Sources

  • 1Bithynia: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.14, 24, 26; 5.19 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 29 [Syriac].
    • Bithynie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 46, 66, 920; II, 240, 450, 472; III, 165, 175, 192, 353, 410, 441, 452, 461, 462, 476, 497 [French].
    • Bithynia: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 18, 20 n.64, 44, 80, 354, 464 [Syriac 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), 42 [Syriac].
    • Bébrycie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 66 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Bithynia” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15761.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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