Shamākhī (settlement)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/9227

Capital of Shirwan

Names

  • Arabic: شماخي = Shamākhī 1
  • Arabic: اليزيدية = al-Yazīdiyya 2
  • Greek: Σαμαχίη, Σαμαχίης, Σαμαχίῃ, Σαμαχίην = Samakhiē, Samakhiēs, Samakhiē, Samakhiēn 3
  • Greek: Σαμαχίου = Samakhiou 4

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles. 3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Event mentioned by Georgios Amiroutzes. 4 before 14701464-1470mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (3) 339، 361 (5) 436 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 436 [Arabic].
  • 3Shemakha: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 2.8; 3.71-72; 7.69 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4Shemakha: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.35 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “Shamākhī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/9227.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
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