Shabakhtan (region)

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A medieval region east of Edessa and north of Harran, mentioned in Arabic chronicles from the Crusader period.

Names

  • Arabic: شبختان = Shabakhtān 1
  • Syriac: ܫܒܟܬܢ = ShBKTN 2
  • Syriac: ܢܒܟܬܢ = NBKTN 3

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 2-3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 40 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 607 [Syriac].
    • Sabaktân: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 216, 233, 397, 401, 402, 412 [French].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 608 [Syriac].
    • Sabaktân: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 216 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Shabakhtan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/183.

Additional credit information:

  • 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 from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; and Syriac Gazetter matching
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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