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Baghdad (settlement)

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A city on the Tigris, approximately 35 km. north of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.

Names

  • Arabic: بغداد = Baghdād 1-4
  • Armenian: Բաբելոն = Babelon 5-15
  • Armenian: Բաղդատ = Baghdat 10-11, 16-24
  • Armenian: Բաղտատ = Baghtat 10, 25
  • Armenian: Պաղդատ = Paghdat 26
  • Greek: Βαβυλῶνος, Βαβυλῶνι, Βαβυλῶνα = Babylōnos, Babylōni, Babylōna 27
  • Greek: Παγδάτιν, Παγδατίνης, Παγδατίης, Παγδατίην = Pagdatin, Pagdatinēs, Pagdatiēs, Pagdatiēn 28
  • Hebrew: בגדאד = BGDʾD 29
  • Latin: Baldach 30
  • Persian: بغداد = Baghdād 31
  • Syriac: ܒܓܕܕ = BGDD 32

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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 Yakob. 5 1318131813181950
Event mentioned by Step‘anos. 6 1395139513951950
Event mentioned by Ṛstakēs. 7 1397139713971950
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 8 1400140014001950
Event mentioned by Matt‘ēos Monozon. 9 1417141714171955
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 10 1422142214221955
Event mentioned by T‘umay Minasents‘. 11 1446144614461955
Event mentioned by Azaria. 12 1464146414641958
Event mentioned by Yovsēp‘. 13 1466146614661958
Event mentioned by Yakob. 14 1470147014701958
Event mentioned by Movsēs Artskets‘i. 15 1472147214721958
Event mentioned by Tserun. 16 1401140114011955
Event mentioned by Karapet. 17 1428142814281955
Event mentioned by Yovsēp‘. 18 1446144614461955
Event mentioned by Vardan. 19 1446144614461955
Event mentioned by Yovanēs. 20 1450145014501955
Event mentioned by Yohanēs. 21 1457145714571958
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 22 1464146414641958
Event mentioned by Vardan. 23 1465146514651958
Event mentioned by Yovanēs Mangasarents‘. 24 1465146514651958
Event mentioned by Ep‘rem. 25 1354135413541950
Event mentioned by Step‘annos. 26 1466146614661958
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 27-28 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 29 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 30 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 31 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 32 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 91، 109، 117، 125، 138، 153، 163، 168، 200، 257، 274، 294، 307، 308، 312، 313، 321، 322، 324، 327، 335، 363، 367، 375، 381، 383، 403، 410، 411، 412، 429، 442، 453، 456، 470، 496، 501، 508، 514، 518 (2) 3، 15، 22، 31، 38، 112، 144، 164، 193، 211، 216، 236، 250، 273، 295، 339، 350، 377، 382، 419، 423، 435، 447، 451، 491، 502، 526 (3) 12، 15، 46، 77، 126، 132، 140، 156، 162 (3) 167، 244، 278، 281، 283، 285، 287، 288، 299، 307، 337، 361، 374، 390، 399 (4) 4، 5، 8، 61، 83، 154، 172، 192، 248، 305، 308، 340، 355، 361، 364، 371، 376، 419، 428، 434، 446، 448، 477 (5) 43، 44، 64، 66، 71، 79، 96، 99، 118، 121، 124، 163، 212، 242، 257، 265، 287، 318، 321، 324، 330 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 5, 119, 179, 184, 192 [Arabic].
    • Baghdad: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 106, 164, 171, 172 [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]), 2:20, 38, 57-65, 74 [Arabic].
    • Baghdād: 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, 283, 303, 326-35, 342 [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]), 4:174 [Arabic].
    • Baghdād: 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, 915 [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 178 pp. 138-139 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1318 (no. 1) [English].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 762 p. 611 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1395 (no. 1) [English].
  • 7L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 772 p. 618 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1397 (no. 1) [English].
  • 8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 784a pp. 627-629 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1400 (no. 1) [English].
  • 9L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 211a, b I: pp. 194-195, 197 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1417 (no. 1) [English].
  • 10L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 300, 300b I: pp. 272-288 [Armenian].
    • Babelon, Bałdat, Bałtat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1422 (no. 1) [English].
  • 11L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 668 I: p. 595 [Armenian].
    • Babelon, Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1446 (no. 2) [English].
  • 12L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 264b II: p. 218 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1464 (no. 7) [English].
  • 13L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 307 II: p. 246 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1466 (no. 4) [English].
  • 14L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 380 II: p. 297 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1470 (no. 1) [English].
  • 15L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 424b II: pp. 333-337 [Armenian].
    • Babelon: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1472 (no. 1) [English].
  • 16L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 4a I: p. 7 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1401 (no. 4) [English].
  • 17L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 403a, b I: pp. 380-381 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1428 (no. 4) [English].
  • 18L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 669 I: p. 595 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1446 (no. 3) [English].
  • 19L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 671 I: p. 596 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1446 (no. 4) [English].
  • 20L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 721a, b I: pp. 644-645 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1450 (no. 1) [English].
  • 21L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 112 II: p. 81 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1457 (no. 2) [English].
  • 22L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 262 II: p. 217 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1464 (no. 5) [English].
  • 23L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 286a II: p. 234 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1465 (no. 5) [English].
  • 24L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 287 II: pp. 235-236 [Armenian].
    • Bałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1465 (no. 6) [English].
  • 25L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 486 p. 406 [Armenian].
    • Bałtat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1354 (no. 2) [English].
  • 26L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 315 II: p. 250 [Armenian].
    • Pałdat: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1466 (no. 7) [English].
  • 27Babylon: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.4, 23, 72; 7.69 [Greek with English translation].
  • 28Baghdad: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 3.4, 23, 72; 7.69 [Greek with English translation].
  • 29Baghdad: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 20, 54-64, 67, 71, 77-79, 99 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 30Baldach: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XII 13, XIII, XIV 14, XVIII 17, XIX 1. 4, XX 70, XXIII 1, XXXIV 25, XXXVI 6. [Latin].
  • 31Baghdad: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 35, 57, 71, 91, 94, 106, 113 [Persian with English translation].
  • 32Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 149 [Syriac].
    • Bagdad: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 282; II, 9, 445, 522, 527-529; III, 3, 10, 17, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 30, 35, 36, 45-49, 53, 57, 60, 61, 66, 67, 73, 83-86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 101, 105, 113, 117, 173, 179, 187, 189, 192, 214, 216, 221, 229, 233, 237, 242, 247, 255, 275, 289, 312, 315, 327, 351, 360, 450, 496, 524 [French].
    • Baghdad: 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), xv, xxix, 36, 38, 44, 52, 58, 68, 74, 80, 126, 130 n.398, 132, 136, 142, 154, 156, 148, 164, 172, 182, 192, 208, 246, 274, 328, 330, 350, 358, 368, 372, 390 [Syriac with English translation].

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Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Baghdad” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/26.

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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; categorization, matching, Greek transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; 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: abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • 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
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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