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Hamadan (settlement)

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A city in northwestern Iran

Names

  • Arabic: همذان = Hamadhān 1
  • Arabic: همدان = Hamadān 2
  • Armenian: Համադան = Hamadan 3-4
  • Hebrew: חמדן = ḤMDN 5
  • Hebrew: מדי העיר = MDY HʿYR 6
  • Persian: همدان = Hamadān 7
  • Syriac: ܗܡܕܢ = HMDN 8

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 2 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Ghazar. 3 1457145714571958
Event mentioned by Yovanēs Mankasarents‘. 4 1457145714571958
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 5-6 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 7 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 82، 163، 167، 168، 169، 174، 176، 177، 178، 180، 196، 222، 258، 283، 302، 368، 379، 404، 410، 507، 515 (2) 42، 69، 118، 129، 132، 156، 177، 180، 184، 340، 360، 362، 392، 400، 454، 459، 490، 545، 546 (3) 17، 171، 78، 141، 159، 170، 179، 189، 195، 204، 215، 244، 261، 268، 297، 331، 375، 383 (4) 4، 35، 55، 232، 245، 247، 257، 279، 281، 330، 362، 414، 416، 446، 484، 489، 495 (5) 8، 33، 47، 57، 71، 199، 222، 228، 233، 254، 330، 341، 373، 383، 410، 421 [Arabic].
  • 2Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:73 [Arabic].
    • Hamadān: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 341 [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), nos. 111a, b II: pp. 79-80 [Armenian].
    • Hamadan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1457 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 118a II: p. 86 [Armenian].
    • Hamadan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1457 (no. 5) [English].
  • 5Hamadan: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 81 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 6Media: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 81 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 7Hamadan: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 4 [Persian with English translation].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 175 [Syriac].
    • Hamadan: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 17 (?); III, 241, 310 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Hamadan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/22.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
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