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Sebastia (settlement)

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A town in Filastin two days journey from Jerusalem, ancient Samaria

Names

  • Arabic: سبسطية = Sabasṭiya 1
  • Hebrew: שומרון = ShWMRWN 2
  • Hebrew: שבשת = ŚBŚT 3
  • Latin: Samaria 4
  • Latin: Sebaste 5-6
  • Syriac: ܣܒܣܛܝܐ = SBSṬYʾ 7
  • Syriac: ܫܡܪܝܢ = ShMRYN 8

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 2-3 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 4-5 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 6 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 7-8 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 184 [Arabic].
  • 2Shomron: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Sebastiya: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 32 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 4Samaria: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 1, V 5, VII 1. 4. 17-18. 20. 24, VIII 1. [Latin].
  • 5Sebaste: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 1, VII 17, VIII 1. [Latin].
  • 6Sebaste: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XII 6, XIII 1. [Latin].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 42 [Syriac].
    • Sébaste: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 67, 132, 137, 283; II, 77, 270 [French].
  • 8Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 42 [Syriac].
    • Samarie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 67, 69, 70, 73-75, 78, 83-84, 107, 113, 127, 132, 137; III, 77, 79, 191, 246, 305, 394, 404 [French].
    • Samaria: 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), 76, 188, 304, 432, 450 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Sebastia” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/8136.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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