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Beth Nahrin (region)

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The Syriac name for Mesopotamia, the region around and between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Names

  • Arabic: بين النهرين = Bayn al-Nahrayn 1
  • Armenian: Միջագետ = Mijaget 2-9
  • Armenian: Միջագետ Ասորոց = Mijaget Asorotsʻ 10
  • Armenian: Միջագետաց Ասորւոց = Mijagetatsʻ Asorwotsʻ 11
  • Hebrew: ארם נהרים = ʾRM NHRYM 12
  • Latin: Mesopotamia 13
  • Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ = BYT NHRYN 14-15

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Grigor Erēts‘. 2 1335133513351950
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 3 1422142214221955
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 4 1431143114311955
Event mentioned by Awetik‘. 5 1437143714371955
Event mentioned by Astuatsatur. 6 1449144914491955
Event mentioned by Dawit‘ (Merdints‘i). 7 1450-14571452-14571452-14571956
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 8 1471147114711958
Event mentioned by Grigor Berkrts‘i. 9 1475147514751958
Event mentioned by Step‘anos. 10 1395139513951950
Event mentioned by Karapet. 11 1428142814281955
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 12 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 13 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 14-15 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 132، 313 (3) 193 (4) 361 (5) 29، 65 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 332 p. 268 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1335 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 300, 300b I: pp. 272-288 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1422 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 433a I: p. 403 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1431 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 522 I: p. 476 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1437 (no. 7) [English].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 704 I: pp. 622-629 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1449 (no. 1) [English].
  • 7V. A. Hakobyan, ed., Manr Zhamanakagrut‘yunner XIII-XVIII DD. (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1951-1956), II:210-212 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1452 (no. 5) [English].
  • 8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 394 II: p. 313 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1471 (no. 2) [English].
  • 9L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 478 II: p. 382 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1475 (no. 2) [English].
  • 10L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 762 p. 611 [Armenian].
    • Miǰaget Asoroc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1395 (no. 1) [English].
  • 11L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 403a, b I: pp. 380-381 [Armenian].
    • Miǰagetac‘ Asorwoc‘: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1428 (no. 4) [English].
  • 12Aram Naharaim: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 62 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 13Mesopotamia: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2 ter, IV 17, V 15 bis. [Latin].
  • 14Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 9 [Syriac].
    • Mésopotamie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 18, 175, 197; II, 154, 160, 170, 171, 206, 240, 322, 372, 379, 411, 413, 419, 424, 426, 431, 443, 450, 456, 463, 474, 504, 526; III, 19, 26, 47, 75, 76, 96, 122, 154, 175, 176, 184, 187, 193, 248, 308, 334, 335, 343, 347, 348, 352, 353, 387, 400 [French].
    • Mesopotamia: 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), xxi, xxiii, 36 n.105, 60 n.183, 194, 218, 224, 418, 420, 428, 432, 436 n.1174, 444 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 15Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 525 [Syriac].
    • Beit Nahrîn: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 76 [French].
    • Bēt-nahrīn: 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), xxiii, 44, 54, 64, 68, 78, 82, 96, 124, 252, 308, 336, 342, 346, 354, 366, 394, 444, 446 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Beth Nahrin” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 10, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/42.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
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