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Tabaristan (region)

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A historical region encompassing the area from the southern coast of the Caspian Sea to the Elburz mountain range in Iran.

Names

  • Arabic: طبرستان = Ṭabaristān 1
  • Greek: Ὑρκανίας, Ὑρκανίαν = Hyrkanias, Hyrkanian 2
  • Hebrew: דבראתן = DBRʾTN 3
  • Hebrew: דברזתאן = DBRZTʾN 4
  • Syriac: ܛܐܪܒܝܣܬܢ = ṬʾRBYSTN 5

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3-4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 149، 154، 162، 172، 175، 211، 248، 284، 333، 342، 524 (2) 118، 119، 195، 201، 418 (3) 104، 170، 244، 311، 340 (4) 6، 13، 41، 417، 423، 432، 475، 489، 496 (5) 41، 198، 305، 384 [Arabic].
  • 2Hyrkania: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.21, 70 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Tabaristan: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 81 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Tabaristan: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 78 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 477 [Syriac].
    • Tabaristan: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 522 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Tabaristan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/189.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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