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AD 629

1 record placed in AD 629; regions: Western Asia.

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AD 629Placed in a yearWestern AsiaPolitics and institutions

Heraclius and the Persian patrician meet at Arabissus

The Syriac chronicle reports that Heraclius and the Persian patrician called Shahruroz in Cowper’s rendering met at a northern site identified as Arabissus.

Limits: One encounter is counted. Cowper marks the following place epithet as uncertain. His English rendering and Brooks’s printed Syriac are two editions of one chronicle, not independent witnesses. The preceding earthquake is not located at Arabissus by this claim.

  • Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.

Source: Syriac Miscellanies, translated annal for Seleucid 940Read the source