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Irmīniya (region)

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Armenia

Names

  • Arabic: إرمينية = Irmīniya 1
  • Arabic: أرمنان = Armanān 2
  • Arabic: أرمينية = Irmīniyya 3
  • Armenian: Հայաստան = Hayastan 4-5
  • Armenian: Հայք = Haykʻ 4, 6
  • Armenian: Հայոց Մեծաց = Hayotsʻ Metsatsʻ 7
  • Armenian: Մեծաց Հայոց = Metsatsʻ Hayotsʻ 8
  • Greek: Ἀρμενίαν = Armenian 9
  • Hebrew: ארמיניאה = ʾRMYNYʾH 10
  • Latin: Armenia maior 11-12
  • Latin: Hormenia 13
  • Syriac: ܐܪܡܢܝܐ ܪܒܬܐ = ʾRMNYʾ RBTʾ 14
  • Syriac: ܐܪܡܢܝܐ = ʾRMNYʾ 15
  • Syriac: ܐܪܡܐܢܝܐ = ʾRMʾNYʾ 16

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 3 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 4 1422142214221955
Event mentioned by Movsēs Artskets‘i. 5 1472147214721958
Event mentioned by Karapet. 6 1437143714371955
Event mentioned by Kiwrion. 7 1321132113211950
Event mentioned by Esayi Nch‘ets‘i. 8 1323132313231950
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 9 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 10 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 11 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 12 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 13 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 14-16 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 128، 136، 144، 159، 232، 240، 330، 452، 467 (2) 43، 124، 125، 129، 245 358، 381، 411، 439 (3) 42، 203، 206، 263، 356، 357، 364، 410، (4) 16، 33، 55، 225، 301، 451، 477 (5) 297، 363، 435 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 289 [Arabic].
  • 3Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 127, 133, 274, 371, 415 [Arabic].
    • Armenia: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 113, 264, 379, 423 [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 300, 300b I: pp. 272-288 [Armenian].
    • Hayastan, Hayk‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1422 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 424b II: pp. 333-337 [Armenian].
    • Hayastan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1472 (no. 1) [English].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 518a I: p. 473 [Armenian].
    • Hayk‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1437 (no. 5) [English].
  • 7L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 207a p. 166 [Armenian].
    • Hayoc‘ Mecac‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1321 (no. 1) [English].
  • 8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 228a p. 182 [Armenian].
    • Mecac‘ Hayoc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1323 (no. 1) [English].
  • 9Armenia: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.37, 50, 52, 55, 71-72; 5.33; 7.69 [Greek with English translation].
  • 10Armenia: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 26 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 11Armenia maior: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9. [Latin].
  • 12Armenia maior: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XIV 4. [Latin].
  • 13Hormenia: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 15, 1. 3. -c. 16. [Latin].
  • 14Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 79 [Syriac].
    • Grande Arménie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 119, 131; III, 88, 133, 169, 175, 187, 198, 199, 401 [French].
    • Armenia: 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), xv, xvi, xviii, xx, xxiii, 7 n.13, 13 n.37, 16 n.50, 28 & n.88, 36 & nn.105–196, 44 & n.134, 70, 78, 94, 150, 162 n.498, 182, 256, 294, 346, 354, 368, 394, 428, 432, 444, 446, 460, 464 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 15Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 95 [Syriac].
    • Arménie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 147-149, 204; II, 21, 166, 167, 240, 248, 251, 266, 283, 305, 317, 322, 353, 379, 409, 419, 424, 434, 439, 441, 469, 474, 482, 503; III, 22, 32, 50, 90, 122, 154, 172, 226, 242, 348, 353, 357, 374, 400, 409 [French].
  • 16Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 10 [Syriac].
    • Arménie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 18, 137 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Irmīniya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/1621.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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