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Khurasan (region)

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A region east and somewhat south of the Caspian Sea.

Names

  • Arabic: خراسان = Khurāsān 1-2
  • Armenian: Ամռսան = Amṛsan 3
  • Armenian: Խորասան = Khorasan 3-24
  • Hebrew: כראסאן = KRʾSʾN 25
  • Persian: خراسان = Khurāsān 26
  • Syriac: ܟܘܪܐܣܢ = KWRʾSN 27

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 Movsēs Artskets‘i. 3 1472147214721958
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 4 1307130713071950
Event mentioned by Grigor Erēts‘. 5 1335133513351950
Event mentioned by T‘uma. 6 1391139113911950
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 7 1422142214221955
Event mentioned by Karapet. 8 1435143514351955
Event mentioned by Ohannē T‘mok‘uets‘i. 9 1442144214421955
Event mentioned by Yohanēs. 10 1449144914491955
Event mentioned by Aṛak‘el Baghishets‘i. 11 before 1453late 15th C15561957
Event mentioned by Vardan. 12 1453145314531958
Event mentioned by Ghazar. 13 1457145714571958
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 14 1458145814581955
Event mentioned by Karapet. 15 1458145814581958
Event mentioned by Ignatios. 16 1458145814581958
Event mentioned by Zak‘ar. 17 1458145814581958
Event mentioned by Khach‘atur. 18 1460146014601958
Event mentioned by Khach‘atur. 19 1461146114611958
Event mentioned by T‘umashay. 20 1462146214621958
Event mentioned by Khach‘atur. 21 1462146214621958
Event mentioned by Step‘anos. 22 1464146414641958
Event mentioned by Mkrtich‘. 23 1468146814681958
Event mentioned by Yovhannēs Mangasarents‘. 24 1469146914691958
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 25 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 26 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 27 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 200، 340، 479 (2) 108، 134، 302، 350، 363، 388 (3) 15، 111، 159، 439 (4) 4، 284 (5) 112 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 74, 115, 116, 119, 122, 124, 129, 130, 139, 165, 179, 182, 183, 187, 188, 189, 190, 192, 196, 198, 323, 324, 325, 410, 413, 415 [Arabic].
    • Khurāsān: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 57, 100, 101, 106, 109, 117, 127, 150, 164, 169, 173, 175, 179, 328–9, 418, 420, 422 [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 424b II: pp. 333-337 [Armenian].
    • Amṙsan, Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1472 (no. 1) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 61 p. 46 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1307 (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. 332 p. 268 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1335 (no. 1) [English].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), nos. 734a, b pp. 587, 589-590 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1391 (no. 1) [English].
  • 7L. 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].
    • Xorasan: 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].
  • 8L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 497 I: pp. 456-457 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1435 (no. 4) [English].
  • 9L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 603a I: pp. 532-534 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1442 (no. 1) [English].
  • 10L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 714 I: p. 639 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1449 (no. 6) [English].
  • 11H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 64-77 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 2) [English].
  • 12L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 44b II: p. 35 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 6) [English].
  • 13L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), nos. 111a, b II: pp. 79-80 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1457 (no. 1) [English].
  • 14L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), I: pp. 507-508, n.1 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1458 (no. 1) [English].
  • 15L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), Addenda (a) II: p. 600 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1458 (no. 2) [English].
  • 16L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 135a II: p. 100 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1458 (no. 4) [English].
  • 17L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 149 II: p. 113 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1458 (no. 7) [English].
  • 18L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 174a II: p. 132 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1460 (no. 3) [English].
  • 19L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 197a II: p. 158 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1461 (no. 2) [English].
  • 20L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 221 II: pp. 172-177 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1462 (no. 3) [English].
  • 21L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 225a II: p. 181 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1462 (no. 6) [English].
  • 22L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 258 II: p. 214 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1464 (no. 2) [English].
  • 23L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 345 II: pp. 270-271 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1468 (no. 1) [English].
  • 24L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 363 II: p. 281 [Armenian].
    • Xorasan: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1469 (no. 1) [English].
  • 25Khurasan: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 62 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 26Khurasan: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 1, 12, 30, 51, 79, 91, 102, 123, 130-32 [Persian with English translation].
  • 27Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 467 [Syriac].
    • Khorasan: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), II, 503, 505, 525; III, 17, 21, 31, 45, 46, 54, 64, 79, 85, 102, 105, 158, 168, 172, 173, 184, 191-193, 196, 206, 214, 227, 233, 237, 241-243, 247, 272, 275, 280, 451, 452, 461, 500 [French].
    • Khorasan: 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), xxix, 2, 4, 28, 32, 36, 38, 44, 62, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86 n.278, 90, 94, 106, 126, 136, 154, 174, 172, 176, 180, 182, 184, 192, 194, 246, 256, 390 [Syriac with English translation].

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Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Khurasan” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 9, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/83.

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  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; Syriac Gazetter matching; and Wikipedia matching
  • 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
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