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Sodom (settlement)

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A place

Names

  • Arabic: سدوم = Sadūm 1
  • Hebrew: סדום = SDWM 2
  • Latin: Sodoma 3-5
  • Latin: Zodoma 6
  • Syriac: ܣܕܘܡ = SDWM 7

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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 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 3 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 6 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 4 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 5 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 7 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 151، 200، 215 [Arabic].
  • 2Sodom: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 37, 45 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 3Sodoma: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 13. 46. [Latin].
  • 4Sodoma: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), LV 2. [Latin].
  • 5Sodoma: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), II 13, 1. [Latin].
  • 6Zodoma: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 45. [Latin].
  • 7Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 12 [Syriac].
    • Sodome: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 25, 34; III, 338, 399 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Sodom” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/8223.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; 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 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 from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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