Russia, Black (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/16025

A place

Names

Greek: Σαρματίας μελαίνης, μέλαιναν Σαρματίαν = Sarmatias melainēs, melainan Sarmatian 1

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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

Sources

1Black Russia: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.26-27 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “Russia, Black” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/16025.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; and categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history

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