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Kanīsa (settlement)

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A village one league south of Haifa.

Names

  • Latin: Capharnaum 1
  • Persian: کنیسه = Kanīsa 2

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Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 1 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 2 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Capharnaum: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 2 passim. [Latin].
  • 2Kanisa: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 25 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Mary Papadopoulos, and Margaret Gaida, “Kanīsa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/19063.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: place categorization and categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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