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Ḥarrān (settlement)

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a city in Northern Mesopotamia

Names

  • Arabic: حران = Ḥarrān 1
  • Armenian: Խառան = Khaṛan 2
  • Hebrew: חרן = ḤRN 3
  • Persian: حرّان = Ḥarrān 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Astuatsatur. 2 1449144914491955
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 4 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 136، 330 (2) 42، 57، 149، 235، 259، 418 (3) 14، 15، 59، 216، 224، 240، 286 (4) 68، 238 (5) 52، 289، 370 [Arabic].
  • 2L. 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].
    • Xaṙan: 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].
  • 3Harran: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 51 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Harran: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 11-12 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ḥarrān” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/5188.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; 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; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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