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al-Ḥabasha (region)

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The region of modern Ethiopia

Names

  • Arabic: الحبشة = al-Ḥabasha 1
  • Hebrew: חוילה = ḤWYLH 2
  • Hebrew: אל חבש = ʾL ḤBSh 3
  • Hebrew: אל חבשה = ʾL ḤBShH 4
  • Latin: Ethiopia 5
  • Persian: حبشه = Ḥabasha 6-7
  • Syriac: ܝܠܬܐܘܦܝܐ = YLTʾWPYʾ 8

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 2-4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 5 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 6-7 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 93، 492 [Arabic].
  • 2Havilah: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 101 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Al-Habash: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 97, 101, 106 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Al-Habash: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 96 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Ethiopia: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9, VIII 5. IX 24, XIII 8. [Latin].
  • 6Abyssinia: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 63, 69, 85-86, 104, 112 [Persian with English translation].
  • 7Ethiopia: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 56 [Persian with English translation].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 73 [Syriac].
    • Éthiopie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 47, 112; II, 401, 414 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “al-Ḥabasha” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/5071.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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