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Armenia Minor (region)

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A region primarily to the west and northwest of the ancient Armenian Kingdom (or "Greater Armenia").

Names

  • Latin: Armenia 1-2
  • Latin: Armenia minor 3
  • Syriac: ܐܪܡܢܝܐ ܙܥܘܪܬܐ = ʾRMNYʾ ZʿWRTʾ 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 1, 3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 2 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Armenia: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9, XIII 8 bis, 9. [Latin].
  • 2Armenia: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 9. VIII 1. [Latin].
  • 3Armenia minor: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), prol. 9, XIII 8. [Latin].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 584 [Syriac].
    • Arménie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 175 [French].
    • Armenia: 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), 44 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Armenia Minor” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/6.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; 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: abstract and Wikipedia matching
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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