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Marash (settlement)

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A city near the Pyramos river northeast of ʿAyn Zarba and northwest of ʿAintab.

Names

  • Arabic: مرعش = Marʿash 1
  • Syriac: ܡܪܥܫ = MRʿSh 2
  • Syriac: ܓܪܡܢܝܩܝ = GRMNYQY 3

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 2-3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 277، 351، 352، 376، 476، 516 (2) 60، 79، 150، 227، 264، 474 (3) 99، 312 (4) 175 (5) 107، 320، 388 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 77 [Syriac].
    • Mar‘aš: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 116; II, 256, 447, 536; III, 102, 121, 131, 139, 148, 173, 174, 191, 200, 241, 246, 249, 268, 275, 290, 297, 300, 310, 311, 313, 314, 318, 326, 466, 467, 476, 500 [French].
    • Marʿash : 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), 38 & n.119, 40, 76, 100, 190, 196, 234, 246, 276, 290, 296, 300 n.834, 312, 348 [Syriac 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), 77 [Syriac].
    • Germanicia (Mar‘aš): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 116; II, 13, 447, 449, 480, 496, 526; III, 42, 127 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Marash” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/3.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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