Amid (settlement)

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A city in upper Mesopotamia.

Names

Arabic: آمد = Āmid 1-2
Armenian: Ամիդ = Amid 3
Armenian: Ամիթ = Amitʻ 4-16
Armenian: Համիթ = Hamitʻ 17
Armenian: Յամիթ = Yamitʻ 13
Persian: آمد = Āmid 18
Syriac: ܐܡܝܕ = ʾMYD 19
Syriac: ܐܓܘܣܛܐ = ʾGWSṬʾ 20

Temporal Data

Show table of instances where this place is mentioned

Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993
Event mentioned by Grigor. 3	1469	1469	1469	1958
Event mentioned by Ṛstakēs. 4	1397	1397	1397	1950
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 5	1422	1422	1422	1955
Event mentioned by T‘umay Minasents‘. 6	1425	1425	1425	1955
Event mentioned by Awetik‘. 7	1425	1425	1425	1955
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 8	1431	1431	1431	1955
Event mentioned by Grigor Kuzets‘i. 9	1432	1432	1432	1955
Event mentioned by T‘ovma Metsop‘ets‘i. 10	1435	1435	1435	1955
Event mentioned by Grigor (Artskets‘i). 11	1435	1435	1435	1955
Event mentioned by Astuatsatur. 12	1449	1449	1449	1955
Event mentioned by Dawit‘ (Merdints‘i). 13	1450-1457	1452-1457	1452-1457	1956
Event mentioned by Dawit‘ Episkopos. 14	1453	1453	1453	1958
Event mentioned by Grigor. 15	1464	1464	1464	1958
Event mentioned by Mkrtich‘. 16	1468	1468	1468	1958
Event mentioned by Mkhit‘ar. 17	1437	1437	1437	1955
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 18	c. 1050	circa 1065	10th C Hijrī/16th C CE	2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 19-20	before 1199	1195-1199?	1598	2009

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 56، 143 (2) 252، 265، 405، 441 (3) 169، 363، 391، 421 (4) 372، 453 (5) 237، 289، 409، 418 [Arabic].
2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 128, 412 [Arabic].
- Amid: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 115, 419 [English].
3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 365 II: p. 282 [Armenian].
- Amid: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1469 (no. 3) [English].
4L. 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].
- Amit‘: 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].
5L. 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].
- Amit‘: 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].
6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 345a, b I: pp. 326-327 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1425 (no. 1) [English].
7L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 362 I: p. 344 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1425 (no. 9) [English].
8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 433a I: p. 403 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1431 (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), no. 458 I: p. 426 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1432 (no. 5) [English].
10L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 495a I: p. 452 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1435 (no. 3) [English].
11L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 499 I: p. 458 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1435 (no. 5) [English].
12L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 704 I: pp. 622-629 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1449 (no. 1) [English].
13V. A. Hakobyan, ed., Manr Zhamanakagrut‘yunner XIII-XVIII DD. (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1951-1956), II:210-212 [Armenian].
- Amit‘, Yamit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1452 (no. 5) [English].
14L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 38 II: pp. 30-31 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (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. 267 II: p. 221 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1464 (no. 10) [English].
16L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 345 II: pp. 270-271 [Armenian].
- Amit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1468 (no. 1) [English].
17L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 515 I: p. 471 [Armenian].
- Hamit‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1437 (no. 2) [English].
18Amid: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 10-11 [Persian with English translation].
19Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 140 [Syriac].
- Amid: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 267; II, 156, 159, 160, 171, 173, 174, 222, 223, 267, 268, 322, 378, 380, 394, 428, 443, 444, 453, 456, 509, 514; III, 103, 120, 121, 124, 147, 148, 162, 170, 171, 184, 187, 193, 212, 213, 225, 228, 234, 235, 242, 244, 246, 249, 250-252, 255, 264, 282, 283, 285, 287, 288, 306, 320, 321, 327, 329, 331, 337, 341, 344, 345, 347, 354, 370, 384, 389, 396, 404, 409, 449, 450, 464, 468, 470-474, 476, 478, 482 [French].
- Āmid: 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), xix, xxvii, xxix, 16, 30 n.93, 34, 54, 66, 68, 82, 106 n.322, 124, 126, 150, 154, 156, 170, 184, 186 n.550, 189, 196, 198, 200, 208, 212, 226, 228, 236, 244, 252, 262, 264, 266, 274, 300 n.834, 308, 312, 314, 322, 330, 338, 344, 354, 356, 386, 412 & n.1122, 414, 428, 436, 450, 462 [Syriac with English translation].
20Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 140 [Syriac].
- Augusta: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 267 [French].

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Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Amid” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 10, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/29.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; 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: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching
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
Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue

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