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Darband (settlement)

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A town in the eastern Caucasus

Names

  • Arabic: باب الأبواب = Bāb al-Abwāb 1
  • Arabic: دربند = Darband 2
  • Armenian: Դարբանդ = Darband 3

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Step‘anos. 3 1436143614361955

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 160، 303، 313، 382 (2) 347 (3) 219، 253، 263، 361 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 245، 303، 328، 342، 533 (2) 346، 367، 394، 449 (3) 31، 303 (4) 307 (5) 22 [Arabic].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 508 I: p. 465 [Armenian].
    • Darband: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1436 (no. 3) [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and McKenzie Cady, “Darband” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/6524.

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