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Tokat (settlement)

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A city in Anatolia between Konya and Siwas, possessing a fortified citadel

Names

  • Arabic: توقات = Tawqāt 1
  • Arabic: طوغات = Ṭūghāt 2
  • Armenian: Թողաթ = Tʻoghatʻ 3
  • Armenian: Թօխաթ = Tʻōkhatʻ 4
  • Greek: Τοχάτην = Tokhatēn 5

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Movsēs Artskets‘i. 3 1472147214721958
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 4 1446144614461958
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 5 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 59 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (4) 50 [Arabic].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 424b II: pp. 333-337 [Armenian].
    • T‘ołat‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1472 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 368 II: p. 285 [Armenian].
    • T‘ōxat‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1469 (no. 6) [English].
  • 5Tokat: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 6.43 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Josh Kuch, “Tokat” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 9, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/4120.

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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; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration, and errata note from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; and categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
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