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Shirvan (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/16113

A place

Names

  • Arabic: شروان = Sharwān 1
  • Armenian: Շարվան = Sharvan 2
  • Armenian: Շրուան = Shruan 3
  • Armenian: Շրվան = Shrvan 3-4

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Yakob. 2 1471147114711958
Event mentioned by Matt‘ēos Monozon. 3 1417141714171955
Event mentioned by T‘umay T‘avrizets‘i. 4 1403140314031955

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 303، 328، 343، 382 (2) 171 (3) 339، 361 (5) 436 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 404a II: p. 319 [Armenian].
    • Šarvan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1471 (no. 8) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 211a, b I: pp. 194-195, 197 [Armenian].
    • Šruan, Šrvan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1417 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 31a I: p. 31 [Armenian].
    • Šrvan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1403 (no. 1) [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and McKenzie Cady, “Shirvan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/16113.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
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