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Bosporos (open water)

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The strait of water outside Constantinople

Names

  • Arabic: الخليج = al-Khalīj 1
  • Armenian: Պողազ Աղեքսանդրի = Poghaz Aghekʻsandri 4
  • Greek: Βοσπόρῳ = Bosporō 2
  • Syriac: ܒܘܣܦܘܪܘܣ = BWSPWRWS 3

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3 before 11991195-1199?15982009
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i. 4 before 1453late 15th C16171957

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 386 [Arabic].
  • 2Bosporos: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 8.1 [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), 24 [Syriac].
    • Bosphore: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 36, 290 [French].
  • 4H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Połaz Ałek‘sandri: 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].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Bosporos” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 9, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15769.

Additional credit information:

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