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Biblios Chronike (aka Annals) by Michael Glycas

Background and Biography
Background and Biography

Excerpts
English from Migne (1866)

Then Jerusalem was afflicted by an earthquake, such that in the ruins of Temples and Houses, a large number of people were crushed and the earth shook for forty days.

Latin from Migne (1866)

Tunc el Hierosolyma terrae motu nisere afflicta fuit, quod in ipsis templorum ediumque ruinis itgens hominum multitudo opprimeretur, terra diern ad quadragesimum usque succussa.

Greek from Migne (1866)

Τότε δή και σεισμού γενομένου κακώς έπαθε τα Ιεροσόλυμα, τεθνηκότων ανθρώπων πολλών εν τοίς των εκκλησιών και οικιών συμπτώμασι, σειομένης της γής άχρις ημερών μ' Το δέ γε Σεπτεμβρίου.

Chronology
Year Reference Corrections Notes
11 April 1034 – 10 December 1041 CE during the reign of Michael none
  • Glycas specifies earlier in the text that the earthquake struck during the reign of Michael (11 April 1034 – 10 December 1041 CE).
Seismic Effects
  • Jerusalem was afflicted by an earthquake, such that in the ruins of Temples and Houses, a large number of people were crushed and the earth shook for forty days.
Locations
  • Jerusalem
Sources
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