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Rome (settlement)

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The capital city of Italy and formerly the capital of the Roman Empire.

Names

  • Arabic: الروم = al-Rūm 1-2
  • Armenian: Հռոմ = Hṛom 3
  • Armenian: Հռովմ = Hṛovm 4
  • Greek: Ῥώμης, Ῥώμῃ, Ῥώμην = Rhōmēs, Rhōmē, Rhōmēn 5
  • Hebrew: רומה = RWMH 6
  • Latin: Roma 7
  • Syriac: ܪܘܡܝ = RWMY 8

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i. 3 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Event mentioned by Dawit‘ Episkopos. 4 1453145314531958
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 5 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 6 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 7 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 199، 238، 270 (3) 97 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 4, 26, 31, 56, 64, 70, 128, 129, 133, 136, 145, 148, 157, 162, 164, 170, 174, 181, 184, 187, 216, 218, 220, 236, 238, 243, 244, 245, 246, 249, 252, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 310, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 333, 362, 364, 366, 368, 381, 402, 405, 410, 414, 416, 429, 430, 431, 432 [Arabic].
    • Rome: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 230, 234, 245, 249, 255, 264, 286–7, 289, 291–2, 295–6, 299, 308, 438 [English].
  • 3H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Hṙom: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 3) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 38 II: pp. 30-31 [Armenian].
    • Hṙovm: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5Rome: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 2.19; 4.24; 6.11, 14, 17, 26, 27, 33, 53; 8.62 [Greek with English translation].
  • 6Rome: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 3, 8-12, 20, 109 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Roma: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 19, 8. [Latin].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 53 [Syriac].
    • Rome: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 84, 110, 112, 126, 129, 130, 134, 136, 141, 146-148, 152-159, 161, 163, 170, 171, 174, 175, 185, 186, 195, 197-199, 204, 265, 267, 268, 271, 272, 302, 306, 311, 313, 315, 321; II, 1, 2, 10, 126, 151, 153, 241, 414, 436, 446, 447, 452, 486, 520; III, 17, 68, 179, 182, 201, 202, 211, 224, 304, 390, 402, 405 [French].
    • Rome: 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, 100, 102, 122, 148, 206, 248, 304, 402 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Rome” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 9, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/176.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; 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
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • 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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