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Seleucid calendar

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A calendar counting years from the entrance of Seleukos Nikator into Babylon in 311 BCE. It is primarily used by Syriac Christians

Names

  • Syriac: ܡܢܝܢܐ ܕܝܘ̈ܢܝܐ = MNYNʾ DYWNYʾ 1
  • Syriac: ܫܢ̈ܝܐ ܕܝܘ̈ܢܝܐ = ShNYʾ DYWNYʾ 2

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Event DescriptionDate
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian1-2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 76, 77 [Syriac].
    • ère des Grecs: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 116 [French].
    • Seleucid: 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), xi, xii, xiii, 2 & n.1 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 77 [Syriac].
    • années des Grecs: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 116, 117 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and McKenzie Cady, “Seleucid calendar” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/154.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and matching, Syriac name collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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