"ʿAsqalān" in The Syriac Gazetteer
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before c. 1225 | c.1225 | 877 A.H. / 1472 | 1995 | |
| before 1354 CE | 1354-1356 | early 1180 A.H. / 1766 | 1997 | |
| before c.1170 | c.1173 | 13th C | 1907 | |
| c.1280 | c.1284 | 14th C | 1864 | |
| c. 1050 | circa 1065 | 10th C Hijrī/16th C CE | 2001 | |
| before 1199 | 1195-1199? | 1598 | 2009 |
Sources
- 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 124، 214، 217، 310، 495، 544 (3) 54، 193، 195، 259 (4) 87، 122، 202، 246 (5) 40، 128، 346 [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]), 1:252-254 [Arabic].
- ʿAsqalān: 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, 81-2 [English].
- 3A. D. H. Bivar, The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354: Index (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000), vol. 5, s.v. [English].
- 4Askelon: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 43 [Hebrew with English translation].
- 5Ascalona: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), V 16, IX 20, X 17. 18, XIII 12. [Latin].
- 6Ascalon: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 48 [Persian with English translation].
- 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 88 [Syriac].
- Ascalon: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 135, 283; II, 70, 80, 82, 238, 517; III, 216, 304, 309, 310, 312, 404, 408 [French].
- 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 659 [Syriac].
- Ašqalân: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 309 [French].
- 9Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 737 [Syriac].
- Ascalon: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 404 [French].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “ʿAsqalān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/261.
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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; 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 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: 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
- Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
- McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle