Khuwayy (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/6223

A town in Adharbayjan

Names

  • Arabic: خوي = Khuwayy 1
  • Armenian: Խօյ = Khōy 2
  • Persian: خوی = Khūy 3

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Abděl-Aziz. 2 1459145914591958
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 3 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 128 (2) 408، 475 (3) 238، 239 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 154 II: pp. 117-118 [Armenian].
    • Xōy: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1459 (no. 2) [English].
  • 3Khoy: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 7 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Mary Papadopoulos, “Khuwayy” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/6223.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • McKenzie Cady: place disambiguation and 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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