al-Lāranda (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/551

"city of central Turkey" 2

Names

  • Arabic: اللارندة = al-Lāranda 1
  • Greek: Λάρανδα = Laranda 3

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 1 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 2:175-176 [Arabic].
    • al-Lāranda: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), II, 431-432 [English].
  • 2A. D. H. Bivar, The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354: Index (London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000), vol. 5, s.v. [English].
  • 3Laranda: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 5.32 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Evan Willford, and Josh Kuch, “al-Lāranda” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/551.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates; and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
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