Tella, city of (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/192

A town east of Edessa and west of Mardin.

Names

  • Syriac: ܬܠܐ = TLʾ 1
  • Syriac: ܐܢܛܝܦܘܠܝܣ = ʾNṬYPWLYS 2
  • Syriac: ܩܘܣܛ܏ܢܛ = QWSṬNṬ 3

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1-3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 140 [Syriac].
    • Tella: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 267; II, 177, 185, 206, 268, 322, 323, 347, 380, 410, 426, 459, 461, 512, 515, 516, 519, 521; III, 27, 460 [French].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 140 [Syriac].
    • Antipolis [Antoninopolis= Tella]: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 267 [French].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 140 [Syriac].
    • Constantia: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 267 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Tella, city of” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/192.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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