Gazigan (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17676

A city between Baghdad and Hilla

Names

Hebrew: גזיגן = GZYGN 1

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 1	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1Gazigan: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 64 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Liran Yadgar, “Gazigan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17676.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue

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