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Trebizond (settlement)

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A port city on the Black Sea

Names

  • Arabic: أطرابزندة = Aṭrābazunda 1
  • Arabic: طرابزندة = Ṭirābazunda 2
  • Armenian: Պաւնտոս = Pawntos 3
  • Armenian: Պոնտոս = Pontos 4
  • Armenian: Տրապիզոն = Trapizon 4-7
  • Greek: Τραπεζοῦς, Τραπεζοῦντος, Τραπεζοῦντι, Τραπεζοῦντα = Trapezous, Trapezountos, Trapezounti, Trapezounta 8-9
  • Syriac: ܛܪܐܦܪܘܣ = ṬRʾPRWS 10
  • Syriac: ܛܪܝܦܘܙܢܛܐ = ṬRYPWZNṬʾ 11

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nikoghayos. 3 1478147814781958
Event mentioned by Step‘anos. 4 1464146414641958
Event mentioned by Sargis. 5 1383138313831950
Event mentioned by Astuatsatur. 6 1449144914491955
Event mentioned by Yakob. 7 1470147014701958
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 8 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Event mentioned by Georgios Amiroutzes. 9 before 14701464-1470mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 10-11 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 21، 31، 161، 216، 342، 345 (3) 100 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 21، 31، 32، 161، 342، 345 [Arabic].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 548 II: p. 433 [Armenian].
    • Pawntos: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1478 (no. 6) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 256a II: p. 211 [Armenian].
    • Pontos, Trapizon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1464 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 679a p. 544 [Armenian].
    • Trapizon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1383 (no. 1) [English].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 704 I: pp. 622-629 [Armenian].
    • Trapizon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1449 (no. 1) [English].
  • 7L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 380 II: p. 297 [Armenian].
    • Trapizon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1470 (no. 1) [English].
  • 8Trebizond: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 6.13; 8.46, 62; 9.27, 34, 70, 74-78; 10.5, 13, 44-45 [Greek with English translation].
  • 9Trebizond: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.28-33, 79-81; 10.13 [Greek with English translation].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 51 [Syriac].
    • Trapezus: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 81 [French].
  • 11Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 280 [Syriac].
    • Trébizonde: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 190, 194; III, 205, 230 [French].
    • Trebizon: 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), 6 n.17, 108, 160 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Trebizond” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/1935.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
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