al-Balqāʾ (region)
URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/3472
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| Event Description | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before c. 1225 | c.1225 | 877 A.H. / 1472 | 1995 | |
| before 843 CE | c. 820-843 CE | 687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE | 1993 | |
| before 1199 | 1195-1199? | 1598 | 2009 |
Sources
- 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 79، 129، 130، 329، 489 (2) 93، 127، 495، 507 (3) 4، 60، 163، 272، 312، 324، 370، 423 (4) 151، 347، 453 (5) 31، 153، 204، 220، 226، 300 [Arabic].
- 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 267, 302, 304, 330 [Arabic].
- Balqā’: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 253, 307, 309 [English].
- 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 469 [Syriac].
- Balqa: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 509 [French].
How to Cite This Entry
Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “al-Balqāʾ” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/3472.
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- Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
- Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
- McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle