Jīḥān (diocese)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/18570

Syriac Orthodox diocese

Names

  • Syriac: ܓܝܚܢ = GYḤN 1

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 564 [Syriac].
    • Djîḥan, Giḥan: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 139, 180, 197, 243, 244, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252, 256, 319, 330, 331, 334, 358, 375, 470, 477, 479, 480, 481 [French].
    • Jaiḥan: 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), 54, 92, 184, 186, 190, 192, 198, 200, 210, 364, 394 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Jīḥān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/18570.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization and categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: indexed dioceses from Michael's chronicle
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