Valley of Crocodiles (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/19114

A desert plain near the Mediterranean coast south of Mount Carmel

Names

Persian: وادی تماسیح = Wādī-yi Tamāsīḥ 1

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 1	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001

Sources

1Valley of Crocodiles: 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 and Mary Papadopoulos, “Valley of Crocodiles” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/19114.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue

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