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ʿArqa (settlement)

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town of Phoenicia (between Tripoli and Tartus)

Names

  • Arabic: عرقة = ʿArqa 1
  • Latin: Arachas 2
  • Persian: عرقه = ʿArqa 3
  • Syriac: ܐܪܩܐ = ʾRQʾ 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 2 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 277 [Arabic].
    • `Arqa: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 270 [English].
  • 2Arachas: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 21-26, III 12, XIII 7. [Latin].
  • 3Arca: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 16 [Persian with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 213 [Syriac].
    • Arqa: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 79 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “ʿArqa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17686.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration 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 from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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