Takrit (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/190

A city on the Tigris River, northwest of Baghdad.

Names

  • Arabic: تكريت = Takrīt 1-2
  • Latin: Techerit 3
  • Syriac: ܬܓܪܝܬ = TGRYT 4

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 3 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 266، 274، 313، 320، 478، 503، 380 (2) 38، 75، 206، 213، 267، 274، 301، 374، 441، 343، 481، 503، 518، 522، 573 (3) 173، 268، 288 (4) 136، 439، 457 (5) 28، 54، 156 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:80 [Arabic].
    • Takrīt: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 347 [English].
  • 3Techerit: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XVIII 6. [Latin].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 416 [Syriac].
    • Tagrit: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 416, 440, 475, 476, 512, 514; III, 3, 4, 28, 29, 34, 35, 38, 39, 42, 47-49, 60, 66, 73, 85-87, 124, 130, 134, 135, 137, 145, 174, 175, 214, 215, 241, 255, 280, 307, 308, 312, 313, 325, 327, 376, 377, 452, 495, 524 [French].
    • Takrit: 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), xix, xxii, xxx, 40, 42, 46 n.144, 54, 128 & n.390, 130, 180, 208 & n.612, 256, 310 & n.859, 400 & n.1100, 446 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Takrit” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/190.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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