al-Ahwāz (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/2388

A region between al-Basra and Fars

Names

  • Arabic: الأهواز = al-Ahwāz 1
  • Arabic: هرمزشهر = Hurmuzshahr 2
  • Arabic: هوز مشير = Hūz Mushīr 3
  • Arabic: هرمز أردشير = Hurmuz Ardashīr 4
  • Armenian: Արաբստան = Arabstan 5

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-4 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ohannē T‘mok‘uets‘i. 5 1442144214421955

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 137، 285، 288، 308، 360، 442، 526 (2) 95، 99، 334، 404، 443، 455، 481، 485، 506 (3) 16، 79، 104، 163، 214، 283، 342، 365، 371، 436 (4) 129، 205، 278، 283، 328، 379، 406، 457 (5) 25، 318، 319 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 284 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 284 [Arabic].
  • 4Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 285 [Arabic].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 603a I: pp. 532-534 [Armenian].
    • Arabstan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1442 (no. 1) [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and McKenzie Cady, “al-Ahwāz” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/2388.

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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; and categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
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