Balansiya (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/3482

A famous city in al-Andalus (modern Valencia)

Names

  • Arabic: بلنسية = Balansiya 1
  • Greek: Βαλεντία, Βαλεντίας, Βαλεντίαν = Balentia, Balentias, Balentian 2

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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

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 263، 264، 334، 406، 490، 498 (2) 434 (3) 63، 307، 321، 341، 382 (4) 30، 46، 299، 381، 451 [Arabic].
  • 2Valencia: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 5.64, 67, 71, 76 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “Balansiya” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/3482.

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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, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
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