Ṣaydāʾ (settlement)

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Sidon

Names

  • Arabic: إربل = Irbil 1
  • Arabic: صيداء = Ṣaydāʾ 2
  • Arabic: صيدا = Ṣaydā 3
  • Hebrew: צידה = ṢYDH 4
  • Hebrew: צידון = ṢYDWN 5
  • Latin: Saget 6
  • Latin: Sidon 7-8
  • Persian: صیدا = Ṣaydā 9
  • Syriac: ܨܝܕܘܢ = ṢYDWN 10

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. 1-2 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa. 3 before 1354 CE1354-1356early 1180 A.H. / 17661997
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela 4-5 before c.1170c.117313th C1907
Events mentioned by Burchard of Mount Sion 7 c.1280c.128414th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 6, 8 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw 9 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 10 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 140 [Arabic].
  • 2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 140، 525 (2) 129، 205 (3) 395، 437 (4) 92، 389، 475 [Arabic].
  • 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].
    • Ṣaidā: 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 [English].
  • 4Saida: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 28 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 5Sidon: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 28, 29, 30 [Hebrew with English translation].
  • 6Saget: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 4. 1. [Latin].
  • 7Sidon: Burchard of Mount Sion, Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2, II 5. 10. 12 -14. 26, III 4. 7, IV 5. 19, VI 5, VII 41. 46, XI 9, XII 6. [Latin].
  • 8Sidon: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 2, 5. - 3,4. - 4,1 sqq. 5, 22. [Latin].
  • 9Sidon: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 19 [Persian with English translation].
  • 10Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 60 [Syriac].
    • Sidon: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 92, 108; II, 90, 162; III, 172, 191, 405 [French].
    • Sidon: 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), xv, 36, 76, 454 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ṣaydāʾ” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/9695.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; place categorization; abstract; matching and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • 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
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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