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Sīwās (settlement)

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Sivas, Sebastia, Sebasteia

Names

  • Arabic: سيواس = Sīwās 1
  • Armenian: Սեբաստիա = Sebastia 2-5
  • Armenian: Սեւաստ = Sewast 6-7
  • Greek: Σεβαστείας, Σεβαστείᾳ, Σεβάστειαν = Sebasteias, Sebasteia, Sebasteian 8
  • Syriac: ܣܒܣܛܝܐ = SBSṬYʾ 9

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 Step‘annos. 2 1313131313131950
Event mentioned by Hayrapet. 3 1333133313331950
Event mentioned by Nersēs. 4 1343134313431950
Event mentioned by Grigor (Tserents‘) Khlat‘ets‘i. 5 1422142214221955
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 6 1401140114011955
Event mentioned by Sargis. 7 1438143814381955
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 8 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 9 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 59 (3) 100 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 130a p. 96 [Armenian].
    • Sebastia: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1313 (no. 3) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 316 p. 256 [Armenian].
    • Sebastia: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1333 (no. 2) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 414a p. 334 [Armenian].
    • Sebastia: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1343 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5L. 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].
    • Sebastia: 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].
  • 6L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 1 I: pp. 3-4 [Armenian].
    • Sewast: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1401 (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), no. 537 I: p. 486 [Armenian].
    • Sewast: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1438 (no. 3) [English].
  • 8Sebasteia: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 2.56-57; 3.1, 44-47; 7.69; 9.72 [Greek with English translation].
  • 9Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 141 [Syriac].
    • Sébaste: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 275; II, 317; III, 133, 173, 176, 179, 188, 192, 219, 253, 254, 350, 357, 405 [French].
    • Sebastea: 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), xxviii, 10, 38, 44, 52, 70, 72, 80, 138, 204, 342, 348 & n.977, 362, 454 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Sīwās” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/8832.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: place disambiguation and citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
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