Nubia (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17723

A place

Names

  • Latin: Nubia 1
  • Persian: نوبه = Nūba 2
  • Syriac: ܕܐܢܐܢܕܘܣ = DʾNʾNDWS 3
  • Syriac: ܢܐܒܕܘܣ = NʾBDWS 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 1 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 2 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3-4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Nubia: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9. [Latin].
  • 2Nubia: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 51-52, 56, 63, 84, 86 [Persian with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 12 [Syriac].
    • Danube: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 22 [French].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 374 [Syriac].
    • Nabados: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 348; III, 91 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Nubia” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17723.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; 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: place categorization 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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