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Raʾs ʿAyn (settlement)

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A big city in al-Jazira between Harran and Nasibin

Names

  • Arabic: رأس عين = Raʾs ʿAyn 1
  • Armenian: Ռա[. . .]ղէն = Ṛa[. . .]ghēn 2
  • Armenian: Ռասըլէն = Ṛasělēn 3
  • Hebrew: ראס אל עין = RʾS ʾL ʿYN 4
  • Syriac: ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ = RYSh ʿYNʾ 5

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 Ṛstakēs. 2 1397139713971950
Event mentioned by Dawit‘ (Merdints‘i). 3 1450-14571452-14571452-14571956
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 5 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 313 (2) 42، 45، 256، 265، 334، 484، 494 (3) 13، 185، 361 (4) 43، 47، 67، 92، 468 (5) 54 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 772 p. 618 [Armenian].
    • Ṙa[. . .]łēn: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1397 (no. 1) [English].
  • 3V. A. Hakobyan, ed., Manr Zhamanakagrut‘yunner XIII-XVIII DD. (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1951-1956), II:210-212 [Armenian].
    • Ṙasəlēn: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1452 (no. 5) [English].
  • 4Ras-el-Ain: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 51 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 158 [Syriac].
    • Reš‘ayna: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 309; II, 13, 171, 322, 323, 372, 419, 459, 460, 469, 470, 508; III, 27, 50, 65, 116, 121, 228, 449, 462, 502 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Raʾs ʿAyn” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 10, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/7083.

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; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
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