Don River (river)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/15808

A place

Names

  • Greek: Τανάϊδος, Τάναϊν = Tanaïdos, Tanaïn 1
  • Syriac: ܛܢܝܣ = ṬNYS 2

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

Sources

  • 1Don River: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.9; 3.21, 23, 25, 27, 34, 36; 4.38 [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), 384 [Syriac].
    • Tanaïs: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 363 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Don River” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15808.

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 from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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