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Headword: *bourgaw/n
Adler number: beta,456
Translated headword: BourgaƓn
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A mountain in the west,[1] where Belisarius waged various wars.
Greek Original:
*bourgaw/n: o)/ros peri\ th\n e(spe/ran, e)/nqa *belisa/rios diafo/rous pole/mous dih/negken.
Notes:
cf. Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 4.12.3 and 5 (web address 1; see Kaldellis (215-216). For Belisarius see beta 233. In fact, Belisarius returned to Constantiople in the summer of 534 CE and had left the command of the Roman army in Africa to Solomon; cf. PLRE IIIb s.v. Solomon(1).
[1] N. Africa. See, for example, omicron 228. In the spring of 535, the rebelling Moors had begun to overrun the Roman province of Byzacena (Byzacium, in modern-day northeastern Tunisia; cf. Barrington Atlas map 32 grid F4). Solomon came south with his army from Carthage, engaged the Moors, and defeated them decisively in battle on the slopes of Mount BourgaƓn, whose exact location is unknown; cf. Kaldellis (215 note 401).
References:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIb, (Cambridge, 1992)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 June 2002@23:11:58.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword) on 13 June 2002@03:14:30.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 13 December 2009@19:50:53.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 14 December 2009@02:56:24.
David Whitehead on 3 June 2012@05:16:46.
Ronald Allen (expanded notes, added bibliography, added link) on 7 January 2024@12:37:06.

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