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Church of St. Michael (church)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/61

A church in Edessa destroyed by the Arabs in the late 12th century CE.

Names

  • Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܡܝܟܐܝܠ = ʿDTʾ DMRY MYKʾYL 1

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 733 [Syriac].
    • Michel: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 398 [French].
    • Michael: 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), 442 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Church of St. Michael” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/61.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization and abstract
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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