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Coele-Syria (region)

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A portion of inland Syria

Names

  • Greek: Συρίας τῆς κοίλης = Syrias tēs koilēs 1
  • Greek: κοίλη Συρία, κοίλης Συρίας, κοίλην Συρίαν = koilē Syria, koilēs Syrias, koilēn Syrian 2
  • Latin: Celesyria 3
  • Latin: Syria cele 4
  • Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ ܥܡܝܩܬܐ = SWRYʾ ʿMYQTʾ 5

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Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 1-2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 3-4 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Koile Syria: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.10 [Greek with English translation].
  • 2Koile Syria: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.13, 38-43 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Celesyria: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2 bis, IV 19. [Latin].
  • 4Syria cele: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2. [Latin].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 510 [Syriac].
    • Cœlé-Syrie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 49, 53, 170, 367 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Coele-Syria” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17708.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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