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Peloponnese (region)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/3435

A place

Names

  • Arabic: بلبونس = Balubūnis 1
  • Greek: Πελοπόννησος, Πελοποννήσου, Πελοποννήσῳ, Πελοπόννησον = Peloponnēsos, Peloponnēsou, Peloponnēsō, Peloponnēson 2-3
  • Syriac: ܦܐܠܘܦܘܢܝܣܘܣ = PʾLWPWNYSWS 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 2 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Event mentioned by Georgios Amiroutzes. 3 before 14701464-1470mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 392 [Arabic].
  • 2Peloponnese: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.8, 12, 38, 41, 55; 2.10, 12-13, 25, 27, 29, 44-45, 47; 3.44; 4:18-19, 23, 45, 47-50, 60, 62; 5.26-27, 29-30; 6.1, 31-32, 47-48, 51-53; 7.17-20, 25-28, 62, 65; 8.2, 24-25, 34-38, 42; 9.1, 3, 7, 19-21, 25, 27, 37, 39, 41, 47-49, 51, 53, 56, 58-59, 61-62, 75, 78, 89; 10.36, 38-39, 41-42, 44, 46, 48-49, 51-56, 59-60 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3Peloponnese: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 10.13 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 30 [Syriac].
    • Péloponèse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 47, 52, 58, 60, 111; III, 13 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Peloponnese” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/3435.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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