Europe (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/19051

A place

Names

  • Persian: فرنگ = Farang 1
  • Syriac: ܐܘܪܝܦܝ = ʾWRYPY 2

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 1 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Europe: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 17 [Persian with English translation].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 414 [Syriac].
    • Europe: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 414 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Europe” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/19051.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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