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Edessa (settlement)

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A city of Mesopotamia, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Osrhoene, modern Urfa.

Names

  • Arabic: الرها = al-Ruhā 1-2
  • Armenian: Եդեսիա = Edesia 3
  • Armenian: Ուրհա = Urha 4
  • Armenian: Ուրխա = Urkha 5
  • Latin: Edissa 6
  • Latin: Races 7
  • Latin: Rasc 8
  • Persian: قرول = Qarūl 9
  • Syriac: ܐܘܪܗܝ = ʾWRHY 10-11, 14
  • Syriac: ܐܕܐܣܐ = ʾDʾSʾ 12
  • Syriac: ܐܕܣܐ = ʾDSʾ 13

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 Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 2 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993
Event mentioned by Ṛstakēs. 3 1397139713971950
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 4 1422142214221955
Event mentioned by Step‘anos. 5 1395139513951950
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 6-8 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 9 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 10-14 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 127، 383، (2) 44، 235، 266، 428، 497، 512 (3) 106، 389 (4) 469 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 179, 431 [Arabic].
    • Edessa: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 165 [English].
  • 3L. 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].
    • Edesia: 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].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), nos. 300, 300b I: pp. 272-288 [Armenian].
    • Urha: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1422 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 762 p. 611 [Armenian].
    • Urxa: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1395 (no. 1) [English].
  • 6Edissa: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2. [Latin].
  • 7Races: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2. [Latin].
  • 8Rasc: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2. [Latin].
  • 9Qarul: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 12 [Persian with English translation].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 10 [Syriac].
    • Édesse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 20, 119, 120, 126, 147-149, 171, 172, 183, 187, 270, 277, 280, 281, 297, 299, 309; II, 160, 174, 179, 206, 245, 246, 249, 319, 333, 344, 352, 354, 355, 366, 371, 372, 379, 380, 401, 402, 410, 411, 420, 427, 428, 436, 443, 444, 451, 454, 457, 463, 465, 467, 468, 471, 472, 474-476, 493, 504, 523; III, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 22, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 61-64, 74, 78, 89, 121, 123, 124, 130, 147, 154, 161, 173, 174, 179, 183, 184, 187, 188, 190, 191, 195-197, 200, 201, 205, 208, 212, 216, 223, 225, 228, 230-233, 238, 243, 246, 256, 259, 260, 263-268, 270, 272, 274, 275, 277-282, 289, 313, 331, 351, 352, 365, 366, 388, 389, 397, 404, 408-411, 413, 478 [French].
    • Edessa: 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), x & n.6, x–xx, xxvi & n.61, xxvii–xxix, 14 & nn.40–45, 32, 33, 38 & n.119, 40, 52, 62, 70, 76, 84, 86, 88, 90 & n.286, 98, 100, 104 b. 321, 106, 110, 112 n. 344, 116, 118, 120, 126, 130, 132, 146, 150, 154, 158, 160, 162 & n.498, 164 & n.499, 166, 174, 184, 186 n. 551, 190, 210, 216, 218 & n.369, 224, 226, 228, 230, 232, 234 & n.670, 236, 240, 242, 244, 246, 248, 250, 252 & nn.714, 216, 254 & n.721, 256, 258, 260, 268 n.755, 274, 298, 338, 350, 366, 368, 376, 380 & n.1062, 412 & n.1122, 416, 428, 434 n. 1166, 436, 438, 442, 446, 450, 456, 460, 462, 464, 466, 468 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 11Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 80, 113 [Syriac].
    • Orhoë: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 119, 183 [French].
  • 12Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 80 [Syriac].
    • Édesse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 119 [French].
  • 13Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 113 [Syriac].
    • Édesse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 183 [French].
  • 14Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 642 [Syriac].
    • Ourhai: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 278 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Edessa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/71.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching and GPS coordinates
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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