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Malatya (settlement)

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A city in Eastern Anatolia, in modern Turkey

Names

  • Arabic: ملطية = Malaṭya 1
  • Greek: Μελιτηνὴ, Μελιτηνῆς, Μελιτηνὴν = Melitēnē, Melitēnēs, Melitēnēn 2
  • Syriac: ܡܝܠܝܛܝܢܝ = MYLYṬYNY 3

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 351 (2) 227، 264، 353، 359، 500 (3) 19، 99، 130، 188، 363 (4) 32، 110، 241، 303، 392، 453 (5) 192، 221 [Arabic].
  • 2Melitene: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 2.49-50, 56-57; 3.44 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 96 [Syriac].
    • Mélitène: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 150, 300, 312; II, 190, 317, 318, 372, 454, 482, 506, 518, 522, 523; III, 13, 85, 89, 102, 121-125, 127, 130-132, 134-137, 139, 141, 144-148, 158, 160, 162-168, 173, 174, 177, 179-181, 187, 188, 190-192, 194, 195, 197, 204, 205, 209, 219, 220, 223, 225, 230, 234, 236-239, 243, 245, 247-255, 258, 259, 263, 267, 268, 272, 276, 285, 286, 300, 304, 305, 307, 314, 318, 319, 321, 326, 327, 329, 331, 334, 336, 341, 345-347, 362-364, 373, 374, 376, 383, 388, 390, 391, 402, 407, 409, 412, 413, 468, 470, 475, 476, 478, 479, 494 [French].
    • Melitene: 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), ix, x, xvii–xviii, xx, xxviii–xxix, 4 & n.9, 6, 10 nn.25–26, 12, 14, 16 nn.51–52, 18, 20, 22 & n.76, 24, 26, 38, 42, 48 & n.148, 52, 54, 56, 58, 66 n.217, 68, 70, 72, 74 & nn.238, 240, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 90, 82, 96, 98, 106 & n.326, 108 & n.333, 110 & n.330, 114, 124, 138, 142, 146, 148, 150, 160, 168, 172, 174, 176, 186, 188, 190, 194, 196, 198, 200, 202 & n. 594, 204, 208 & nn.611, 615, 210, 216, 224, 230, 234, 240, 248, 258 n.734, 264, 266, 268, 270, 294, 304, 306, 310, 314 & n.873, 320, 322, 330, 336 & n.940, 340, 342, 346, 368, 374, 392, 394, 398, 412, 420, 422, 426, 432 & n.1188, 446, 456, 458, 462, 468 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Malatya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/2.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; 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
  • Evan Willford: abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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