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Rhodes (island)

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a Greek island

Names

  • Arabic: رودس = Rawdis 1
  • Arabic: روذس = Rawdhis 2
  • Greek: Ῥόδῳ, Ῥόδον = Rhodō, Rhodon 3
  • Hebrew: רודיש = RWDYŚ 4
  • Syriac: ܪܘܕܘܣ = RWDWS 5

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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 Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
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) 162، 228، 345 (3) 78 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 296 [Arabic].
    • Rhodes: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 298 [English].
  • 3Rhodes: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 1.41; 3.28, 42; 5.34; 8.63; 9.38 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Rhodes: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 25 [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), 82 [Syriac].
    • Rhodes: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 122, 132, 149; II, 160, 408, 442; III, 81 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Rhodes” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/7483.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: abstract and categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan and categorization, matching from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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