silāḥdār

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Title

Names

  • Arabic: السلحدارية = al-silaḥdāriyya 1
  • Greek: συλικτάριδες = syliktarides 2
  • Greek: σιλικτάριδας = siliktaridas 3
  • Greek: σιλικταρίους = siliktarious 4

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.1 before 1354 CE1354-135613561997
Event mentioned by Laonikos Chalkokondyles.2-3 before 14641464-1468mid-late 15th C2014
Event mentioned by Georgios Amiroutzes.4 before 14701464-1470mid-late 15th C2014

Sources

  • 1Ibn 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]), 3:152, 244 [Arabic].
    • silaḥdārīs: 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), III, 661, 760 [English].
  • 2silahdars: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 5.13 [Greek with English translation].
  • 3silahdars: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 8.73 [Greek with English translation].
  • 4silahdars: Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories, ed. Anthony Kaldellis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), para. 9.79 [Greek with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Josh Kuch, “silāḥdār” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/318.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; categorization, matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account; and categorization, matching, Greek collection and transliteration from Chalkokondyles' history
  • Josh Kuch: categorization from Chalkokondyles' history
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