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Sea of Galilee (open water)

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A place

Names

  • Arabic: بحيرة طبرية = Buḥayrat Ṭabariyya 1-2
  • Hebrew: ים כנרת = YM KNRT 4
  • Latin: Cenereth 5
  • Latin: Genezareth 6-8
  • Latin: mare Galilee 9-11
  • Latin: mare Tiberiadis 12-13
  • Latin: stagnum Genesareth 14-15
  • Latin: Tiberiadis mare 16
  • Persian: دریای طبریه = Daryā-yi Ṭabariyya 17

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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 Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 5-6, 9, 16 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 7, 10, 12, 14 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Odoric of Pordenone 8, 11, 13, 15 1318-13301330c. 13501864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 17 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 351، 455 (4) 16، 470 [Arabic].
  • 2Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 180, 223, 356, 357, 359, 360 [Arabic].
    • Galilee, Sea of: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), xvi, 165, 207, 362, 363, 366, 368 [English].
  • 3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:260 [Arabic].
    • : H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 84-5 [English].
  • 4Chinnereth: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 44 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Cenereth: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), IV 7, VI 5. [Latin].
  • 6Genezareth: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), XI 8. [Latin].
  • 7Genezareth: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 8 26 bis. [Latin].
  • 8Genezareth: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 6. [Latin].
  • 9mare Galilee: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), III 6. 7. 8. 10, IV 7. 9, 12. 14. 15. 19, V 1. 2. 8. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16, VI 5. 9. 11, VII 1. 2. 4, XI 1. 10. [Latin].
  • 10mare Galilee: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I passim. [Latin].
  • 11mare Galilee: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 2. 10. [Latin].
  • 12mare Tiberiadis: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 28. 29. [Latin].
  • 13mare Tiberiadis: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 4. [Latin].
  • 14stagnum Genesareth: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 26. [Latin].
  • 15stagnum Genesareth: Odoric of Pordenone, Liber de Terra Sancta, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), X 6, LI passim. [Latin].
  • 16Tiberiadis mare: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VI 5. V. [Latin].
  • 17Galilee, Sea of: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 23 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Sea of Galilee” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/874.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Evan Willford: place categorization and matching from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
  • Liran Yadgar: categorization, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Mary Papadopoulos: categorization, matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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