Botrum (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/17784

A town north of Jubayl on the coast (modern Batroun)

Names

  • Latin: Boterim 1
  • Latin: Botrum 2
  • Persian: طرابرزن = Ṭarāburzun 3
  • Syriac: ܘܛܪܐܘܣ = WṬRʾWS 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 2 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 1 1211-1212c.122216th 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

  • 1Boterim: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 7, 1. [Latin].
  • 2Botrum: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 16. [Latin].
  • 3Taraburzun: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 17 [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), 312 [Syriac].
    • Botrys: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 244, 246 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Botrum” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17784.

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
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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