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Ṭarsūs (settlement)

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town in Cilicia

Names

  • Arabic: طرسوس = Ṭarasūs 1
  • Armenian: Տարսոն = Tarson 2-3
  • Armenian: Տարսոյ = Tarsoy 4
  • Armenian: Տարսուս = Tarsus 5
  • Latin: Tarsis 6
  • Latin: Tharsis 7
  • Latin: Tursolt 8
  • Syriac: ܛܪܣܘܣ = ṬRSWS 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 T‘oros. 2 1361136113611950
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe. 3 1468146814681958
Event mentioned by Sargis. 4 1367136713671950
Event mentioned by Vasil. 5 1337133713371950
Events mentioned by Riccoldo da Montecroce 7 c. 1289c.129014th C1864
Events mentioned by Wilbrand of Oldenburg 6, 8 1211-1212c.122216th C1864
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 9 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 133، 231، 246، 269، 282، 361، 376، 379، 467 (2) 41، 79، 228، 349، 384، 447 (3) 83، 99، 238، 297 (4) 28، 188، 303، 392 (5) 26، 145، 151، 317 [Arabic].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 546 p. 451 [Armenian].
    • Tarson: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1361 (no. 3) [English].
  • 3L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1958), no. 349 II: pp. 273-274 [Armenian].
    • Tarson: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1468 (no. 4) [English].
  • 4L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 582 p. 477 [Armenian].
    • Tarsoy: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1367 (no. 1) [English].
  • 5L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 363 pp. 294-296 [Armenian].
    • Tarsus: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1337 (no. 2) [English].
  • 6Tarsis: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 19. - 20, 4.- 26, 1. II 2, 15. [Latin].
  • 7Tharsis: Riccoldo da Montecroce, Liber Peregrinationis, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), VII 13. [Latin].
  • 8Tursolt: Wilbrand of Oldenburg, Peregrinatio, in J. C. M. Laurent, ed., Peregrinatores Medii Aevi Quatuor (Leipzig: C. P. Melzeri, 1864), I 19, 1. [Latin].
  • 9Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 32 [Syriac].
    • Tarse: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 52, 78, 81, 151, 197, 291, 301, 320, 322; II, 343; III, 16, 95, 98, 116, 121, 128, 139, 164, 173, 179, 191, 245, 255, 310, 316, 319, 324, 361, 377 [French].
    • Tarsus: 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), 18, 38 & n.119, 52, 76, 160 n.492, 188, 208, 344, 370, 402, 434 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Ṭarsūs” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/9909.

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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; matching from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor; and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Margaret Gaida: categorization from Laurent's Peregrinatores medii aevi quattuor
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
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