Breasts of the Earth (mountain)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/18579

mountains which supposedly enclosed the land of the Turks, according to Michael the Syrian

Names

  • Syriac: ܒܙ̈ܝ ܐܪܥܐ = BZY ʾRʿʾ 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), 570 [Syriac].
    • Mamelles de la Terre: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 152 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Breasts of the Earth” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/18579.

Additional credit information:

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