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al-Iskandarūna (settlement)

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Modern Iskenderun near Antioch

Names

  • Arabic: إسكندرونة = al-Iskandarūna 1
  • Arabic: الإسكندرية = al-Iskandariyya 2
  • Latin: Alexandreta 3
  • Syriac: ܣܘܢܩܪܛܘܢ = SWNQRṬWN 4

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 3 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Bar Hebraeus 4 before 11991276-1286before 13571890

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 182 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 517 (2) 80 [Arabic].
  • 3Alexandreta: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 18, 2. 8. [Latin].
  • 4Gregory Barhebraeus, Chronicon Syriacum, ed. Paul Bedjan (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1890), 323 [Syriac].
    • Iskanderoun: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 314 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “al-Iskandarūna” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/1776.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • 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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