Italy (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17186

A place

Names

  • Hebrew: איטליא = ʾYṬLYʾ 1
  • Latin: Ytalia 2
  • Syriac: ܐܝܛܠܝܐ = ʾYṬLYʾ 3-4

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 1 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 2 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3-4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Italy: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 109 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 2Ytalia: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 1, XIII 1. [Latin].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 161 [Syriac].
    • Italie (pour Illyrie): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 307 [French].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 50 [Syriac].
    • Italie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 79, 99, 267, 307; II, 10, 151, 235, 240, 241, 252, 454, 486; III, 182, 202, 236, 275, 407 [French].
    • Italy: 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), 60, 102, 170, 248, 456 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Italy” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17186.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; 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
  • Liran Yadgar: place categorization and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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