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Bālis (settlement)

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A town in Syria between Aleppo and al-Raqqa

Names

  • Arabic: بالس = Bālis 1
  • Hebrew: בליץ = BLYṢ 2
  • Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܒܠܫ = BYT BLSh 3

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 2 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 328 (2) 10، 142، 207، 264، 318، 370، 504 (3) 135، 163، 168، 414 (4) 92، 149، 241، 470، (5) 253، 399 [Arabic].
  • 2Balis: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 50 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 299 [Syriac].
    • Baleš ou Beit Baleš: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 220, 312, 361; III, 44, 46, 52, 170, 215, 469, 476 [French].
    • Balish/Balis: 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), 32 & n.96, 132 & n.411 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Bālis” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/2660.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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