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Alexandria (settlement)

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a port city in Egypt

Names

  • Arabic: الإسكندرية = al-Iskandariyya 1-2
  • Arabic: الاسكندرية = al-Iskandariyya 3-4
  • Armenian: Աղեքսանդր = Aghekʻsandr 5
  • Greek: Ἀλεξανδρείας, Ἀλεξάνδρειαν = Alexandreias, Alexandreian 6
  • Hebrew: אל אסכנדריאה = ʾL ʾSKNDRYʾH 7
  • Hebrew: אסכנדריאה = ʾSKNDRYʾH 8
  • Persian: اسکندریّه = Iskandariyya 9
  • Syriac: ܐܠܟܣܢܕܪܝܐ = ʾLKSNDRYʾ 10

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 4 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by T‘umay Archishets‘i. 5 1336133613361950
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 6 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 7-8 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 9 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 10 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 183، 345، 351، 389، 414، 484 (2) 27، 472 (3) 269 (4) 263، 458 (5) 66، 99، 119، 218 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 162, 164, 272, 288, 294, 307, 310-314, 431 [Arabic].
    • Alexandria: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 147, 259, 260, 286, 295, 315-317, 326 [English].
  • 3Ibn 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]), 1:179-193, 201, 203, 209 [Arabic].
    • Alexandria: 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), I, 18-30, 40, 42, 51 [English].
  • 4Ibn 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]), 4:181 [Arabic].
    • Alexandria: 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), IV, 919 [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 347a pp. 281-282 [Armenian].
    • Ałek‘sandr: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1336 (no. 1) [English].
  • 6Alexandria: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.41; 4.38 [Greek with English translation].
  • 7Alexandria: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 103, 105, 107 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 8Alexandria: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 2, 102, 104 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 9Alexandria: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 53-54 [Persian 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), 58 [Syriac].
    • Alexandrie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 37, 89, 113, 114, 115, 118, 134, 149, 150, 161, 163, 170, 174, 178, 186, 188, 191, 197-199, 242, 243, 245, 246, 261, 262, 264, 269, 271, 275, 278, 281-286, 291, 295-297, 300-304, 314, 315; II, 11, 91, 128, 143, 152, 153, 169, 170, 174, 194, 234, 235, 238, 240, 243, 244, 248, 250, 255, 303-305, 319, 321, 324, 326, 337, 345, 348, 360, 362, 366, 367, 385, 392, 401, 414, 425, 427, 432, 433, 441, 471, 486; III, 4, 25, 32, 47, 59, 60, 63, 68-133, 162, 235, 327, 329, 331, 351, 403 [French].
    • Alexandria: 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), 16, 48, 160, 170, 350, 404, 448, 466 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Alexandria” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/234.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; 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; categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; Syriac Gazetter matching; Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching, 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 and Greek collection from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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