Gascony (region)

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a region in France

Names

Greek: Γασκώνη = Gaskōnē 1
Hebrew: גשקוניה = GŚQWNYH 2

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 1	before 1464	1464-1468	mid-late 15th C	2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 2	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1Gascony: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 5.72 [Greek with English translation].
2Gascony: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 106 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Liran Yadgar, and Josh Kuch, “Gascony” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/15828.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: abstract and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history

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