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Babylon (fortification)

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A pre-Islamic castle in Egypt, near Fusṭāṭ

Names

  • Arabic: باب أليون = Bāb Alyūn 1
  • Arabic: بابليون = Bābilyūn 2
  • Arabic: ببليون = Babilyūn 3
  • Arabic: قصر الشمع = Qaṣr al-Shamaʿ 4
  • Arabic: باب اليون = Bāb al-Yūn 5
  • Latin: Babylonia Egypti 6

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-5 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 6 c.1280c.128414th C1864

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 248 (5) 453 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 248، 311، 333 (4) 358 (5) 453 [Arabic].
  • 3Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 333 [Arabic].
  • 4Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 357 (5) 140 [Arabic].
  • 5Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 453 [Arabic].
  • 6Babylonia Egypti: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 53, IX 10. [Latin].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Margaret Gaida, “Babylon” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/2518.

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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 matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
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