Bar Gāgī (monastery)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/38

A monastery in the province of Melitene, founded by the monk Elijah Ibn Jājī in 960 CE and destroyed in 1085 CE.

Names

  • Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܒܪ ܓܐܓܝ = DYRʾ DBR GʾGY 1
  • Syriac: ܏ܡ ܣܗ̈ܕܐ = M SHDʾ 2

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1-2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 554 [Syriac].
    • Bar Gagî [ou Gagai] (couvent de): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 124, 126, 127, 141, 159, 160, 174, 190, 468-474, 476 [French].
    • Bar-Gagi: 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), 6, 14, 40, 74, 76 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 556 [Syriac].
    • Quarante-Martyrs (couv. des): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 126, 468 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Bar Gāgī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/38.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; and Syriac Gazetter matching
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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