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Hisn Ziyad (settlement)

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A town northeast of Melitene.

Names

  • Arabic: حصن زياد = Ḥiṣn Ziyād 1
  • Arabic: خرتبرت = Khartabirt 2
  • Syriac: ܚܣܢܐ ܕܙܝܕ = ḤSNʾ DZYD 3

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 160 (2) 264، 355 (4) 453 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 264، 355، 388 (3) 362 [Arabic].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 566 [Syriac].
    • Ḥesna de Ziâd: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 141, 164, 193, 203-205, 211, 212, 219, 220, 225, 237, 252, 254, 258, 260, 265, 288, 290, 291, 298, 306-308, 311, 321, 329, 343, 346, 363, 373, 382, 396, 473-477 [French].
    • Ḥiṣn-Ziyād: 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), xvi, xviii, 82 & n.268, 106, 110, 118, 122, 138, 142, 174, 202, 218, 218, 226, 274, 276, 278, 284, 292, 294, 308, 310, 312, 366, 342, 374, 392, 410, 436, 442 n.1188 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Hisn Ziyad” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/80.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; 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 reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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