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qal‘a

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A type of stronghold

Names

  • Armenian: կլայ = klay 1-2

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Grigor Tat‘ewats‘i.1 1387138713871950
Event mentioned by an Armenian scribe.2 1445144514451955

Sources

  • 1L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XIV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1950), no. 709 pp. 567-568 [Armenian].
    • klay: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1387 (no. 1) [English].
  • 2L. S. Khach‘ikyan, ed., XV Dari Hayeren Dzeṛagreri Hishatakaranner (Yerevan: Haykakan S. S. Ṛ. Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1955), no. 662a I: p. 590 [Armenian].
    • klay: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1445 (no. 6) [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and McKenzie Cady, “qal‘a” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/45.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
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