Manbij (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/84

A city between Aleppo and the Euphrates River.

Names

  • Arabic: منبج = Manbij 1
  • Persian: منبج = Manbij 2
  • Syriac: ܡܒܘܓ = MBWG 3
  • Syriac: ܐܝܪܘܦܘܠܝܣ = ʾYRWPWLYS 4

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 Nāṣir-i Khusraw 2 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 3-4 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 103، 303، 328، 332، 409، 447، 472 (2) 133، 207، 240، 264، 270، 315، 474، 529 (3) 19، 52، 99، 170، 228، 271 (4) 165، 183، 234، 391 (5) 205 [Arabic].
  • 2Manbij: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 13 [Persian with English translation].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 59 [Syriac].
    • Mabboug (Hierapolis ad Euphraten): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 91, 93, 148, 183; II, 189, 366, 378, 381, 412, 427, 445, 510, 511, 525; III, 18, 47, 101, 168, 191, 211, 215, 232, 238, 316, 366, 450, 500 [French].
    • Mabbug: 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), 22 n. 74, 26, 76, 122, 132, 162, 176, 260, 380 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 4Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 60 [Syriac].
    • Hiérapolis de Syrie: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 93, 183; III, 168 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Manbij” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/84.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; 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
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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