Ḥiṣn Kayf (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/16

A city on the Tigris river between Amida and Gazarta.

Names

  • Arabic: حصن كيفا = Ḥiṣn Kayfā 1
  • Syriac: ܚܣܢܐ ܕܟܐܦܐ = ḤSNʾ DKʾPʾ 2

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 535 (2) 115، 265، 441، 494 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 393 [Syriac].
    • Ḥesna de Kêpha (Ḥesn-Képha): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 378, 516; III, 216, 240, 249, 268, 361, 366, 368, 389, 394 [French].
    • Ḥiṣn-Kīphō: 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), 106, 134, 178, 196, 370, 378, 384, 428, 432, 436 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

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

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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