Samosata (settlement)
URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/179
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before c. 1225 | c.1225 | 877 A.H. / 1472 | 1995 | |
| before 843 CE | c. 820-843 CE | 687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE | 1993 | |
| before 1199 | 1195-1199? | 1598 | 2009 |
Sources
- 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 516، 526 (2) 227، 265، 481 (3) 51، 131، 184، 207، 234، 258، 269 (4) 241، 387، 390، 453، 497 (5) 370 [Arabic].
- 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 145 [Arabic].
- Samosata: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 133 [English].
- 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 88 [Syriac].
- Samosate: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 135, 295, 296; II, 14, 375, 377, 412, 428, 474, 515, 521, 525, 526; III, 3, 19, 21, 25, 27, 39, 53, 119, 121, 127, 161, 175, 198, 200, 231, 246, 256, 271, 272, 277, 338, 408-410, 449, 459, 502 [French].
- Samosata: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), xviii, 14 & n.50, 16, 42, 94, 100, 120 n.366, 162 & nn.497–498, 190, 210 & n.618, 240, 252, 260 n.744, 290 & n.800, 326, 328, 358 n.1003, 434 n.1166, 442 n,1188 [Syriac with English translation].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Samosata” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/179.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
- Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
- Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
- McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle