Place

Calormen

Also known as Calormene, Calormenes

A large southern empire ruled by the Tisroc, with Tashbaan as its capital. Its courtly hierarchy, trade, armies, and storytelling traditions contrast sharply with the northern kingdoms.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

Primary sources

In the chronicles

These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.

The Horse and His Boy24 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 2In those days, far south in Calormen on a little creek of the sea, there lived a poor fisherman called Arsheesh, and with him there lived a boy who …Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 45… "Shasta, I'm ashamed of myself. I'm just as frightened as a common, dumb Calormene horse. I am really. I don't feel like a Talking Horse at all. I don't mind swords and lances and arrows but I c…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 51…e. Indeed Bree said (afterwards) that a finer race had never been seen in Calormen.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 4…ee, who was thoroughly enjoying the story. "She's telling it in the grand Calormene manner and no story-teller in a Tisroc's court could do it better. Pray go on, Tarkheena."Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 21… and Aravis who did nearly all the talking. Bree had lived a long time in Calormen and had always been among Tarkaans and Tarkaans' horses, and so of course he knew a great many of the same peop…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 19… Soon they came to finer streets. Great statues of the gods and heroes of Calormen--who are mostly impressive rather than agreeable to look at--rose on shining pedestals. Palm trees and pillared…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 24… that day. The crier who went before it shouting "Way, way!" was the only Calormene in it. And there was no litter; everyone was on foot. There were about half a dozen men and Shasta had never se…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 18"And do the Calormenes know of this western way?" asked the Queen.Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 19…hat is the use of all this discourse? We are not asking whether Narnia or Calormen would win if war arose between them. We are asking how to save the honour of the Queen and our own lives out of…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 25…an at listening. She insisted on Aravis having a long and luxurious bath (Calormene baths are famous) and then dressing her up in the finest clothes before she would let her explain anything. The…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 26…out him. My husband says he is beginning to be one of the greatest men in Calormen. He has just been made Grand Vizier now old Axartha has died. Didn't you know?"Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 20"How blessed is Calormen," said the Vizier, popping up his face again, "on whose ruler the gods have been pleased to bestow prudence and…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 34…lied to our House and seeing his nephew and grand nephew on the throne of Calormen."Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 22…ing to hear--the noise of hoofs and jingling armour, mixed, perhaps, with Calormene battle-cries. Yet Shasta knew it at once. It was the same snarling roar he had heard that moonlit night when th…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 72"I shall go back to Calormen," he said.Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 65Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the for…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 14…s," said Shasta, "someone ought to be told that there's an army of savage Calormenes attacking Anvard at this very moment."Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 15…ay so!" answered the Hedgehog. "Well, think of that. And they do say that Calormen is hundreds and thousands of miles away, right at the world's end, across a great sea of sand."Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 16…le white dots, the faces of the defenders. Down below, about fifty of the Calormenes, dismounted, were steadily swinging a great tree trunk against the gate. But at once the scene changed. The mai…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 21…ram into position. King Lune's men are shooting hard from the walls. Five Calormenes have fallen: but not many will. They have their shields above their heads. Rabadash is giving his orders now. W…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 47… bowed, and a very clumsy bow for a Prince it was. Aravis curtsied in the Calormene style (which is not at all like ours) and did it very well because, of course, she had been taught how. Then sh…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 31…his if they take the trouble). He had always found this very effective in Calormen. The bravest had trembled when he made these faces, and ordinary people had fallen to the floor, and sensitive …Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 45…badash became Tisroc in his place he turned out the most peaceable Tisroc Calormen had ever known. This was because, not daring to go more than ten miles from Tashbaan, he could never go on a wa…Open passage →

Prince Caspian1 cited passage⌄

Chapter II · paragraph 35…emember--it was the very day before the ambassadors came from the King of Calormen--don't you remember planting the orchard outside the north gate of Cair Paravel? The greatest of all the wood-p…Open passage →

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader7 cited passages⌄

Chapter III · paragraph 35…never did. Blowed if I take less than two hundred crescents for him." The Calormen crescent, which is the chief coin in those parts, is worth about a third of a pound.Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 23"For export, your Majesty. Sell 'em to Calormen mostly; and we have other markets. We are a great centre of the trade."Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 41…eat hand-clasping and greeting between them and Caspian. Two merchants of Calormen at once approached. The Calormenes have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-coloured…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 13…With some of this stuff I could have quite a decent time here--perhaps in Calormen. It sounds the least phoney of these countries. I wonder how much I can carry? That bracelet now--those things …Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 41…eir search revealed, one by one, a helmet, a dagger, and a few coins; not Calormen crescents but genuine Narnian "Lions" and "Trees" such as you might see any day in the market place of Beaversd…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 20… thick and fast. She saw herself throned on high at a great tournament in Calormen and all the Kings of the world fought because of her beauty. After that it turned from tournaments to real wars…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 54…he deserted on the voyage home at the Lone Islands, and went and lived in Calormen, where he told wonderful stories about his adventures at the End of the World, until at last he came to believe…Open passage →

The Silver Chair2 cited passages⌄

Chapter III · paragraph 86…e Horse and his Boy and tells of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Cair Paravel. (I haven't time to tell it n…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 38… at once. Has the King been shipwrecked? Any forest fires? No wars on the Calormen border? Or a few dragons, I shouldn't wonder?" And all the creatures laughed aloud and said, "Isn't that just l…Open passage →

The Last Battle27 cited passages⌄

Chapter II · paragraph 5… Lantern Waste. Then came that dark Man with the beard, the merchant from Calormen. The Calormenes care nothing for Aslan as we do; but the man spoke of it as a thing beyond doubt. And there was…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 41"Taking logs down to sell to the Calormenes, Sire," said the Rat, touching his ear as he might have touched his cap if he had had one.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 3"'Ware danger, King," said Jewel. Tirian looked up and saw that Calormenes (mixed with a few Talking Beasts) were beginning to run towards them from every direction. The two dead men had…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 13…ill go back. I will give up my sword and put myself in the hands of these Calormenes and ask that they bring me before Aslan. Let him do justice to me."Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 1… from being knocked down that he hardly knew what was happening until the Calormenes untied his wrists and put his arms straight down by his sides and set him with his back against an ash tree. Th…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 13…t want any other King. We're your people. If it were only the Ape and the Calormenes who were against you, we would have fought till we were cut into pieces before we'd have let them tie you up. W…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 39"Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. 'Tis mail of Calormen, outlandish gear. I have ever kept a few suits of it in readiness, for I never knew when I or my friends might …Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 43After the mail shirts they put on Calormene helmets, which are little round ones fitting tight to the head and having a spike on top. Then Tirian took long…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 1…had been all with a straight Narnian sword. He had never handled a curved Calormene scimitar and that made it hard, for many of the strokes are quite different and some of the habits he had learn…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 4…ur peace and I will do my best to talk like a curst, cruel, proud lord of Calormen. If I draw my sword then thou, Eustace, must do likewise and let Jill leap behind us and stand with an arrow on…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 1The two Calormene soldiers at the head of the column, seeing what they took for a Tarkaan or great lord with two armed pages, cam…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 2"O My Master," said one of them, "We lead these manikins to Calormen to work in the mines of the Tisroc, may-he-live-forever."Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 22…taur was bringing up from Cair Paravel and return against the Ape and his Calormenes in force. Tirian would very much like to have followed the first plan: he hated the idea of leaving the Ape to …Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 26…had better remove their disguises, as they didn't want to be mistaken for Calormenes and perhaps attacked by any loyal Narnians they might meet. The Dwarf made up a horrid-looking mess of ashes fr…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 2…re that Aslan sends us. And if, by a great marvel, we defeat those thirty Calormenes who are with the Ape, then to turn again and die in battle with the far greater host of them that will soon mar…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 9…ay and there was no one to send with them. Also, as Poggin said, once the Calormenes had Narnia they would certainly take Archenland in the next week or so: the Tisroc had always wanted to have th…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 23…nk is really inside the Stable?" she said. "Who knows?" said Tirian. "Two Calormenes with drawn swords, as likely as not, one on each side of the door." "You don't think," said Jill "It might be .…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 40…s he thought it would be best to draw his sword at once and rush upon the Calormenes: then next moment he thought it would be better to wait and see what new turn affairs might take. And now a new…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 16…un so cold as that line of dark-faced bright-eyed men. There were fifteen Calormenes, a Talking Bull of Narnia, Slinkey the Fox, and Wraggle the Satyr. Then he heard twang-and-zipp on his left and…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 19Then Eustace came to his senses and saw the Calormenes scampering back to their friends. But not all of them. Two lay dead, pierced by Jewel's horn, one by Tirian's s…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 2A Calormene was running towards the Stable door carrying something that kicked and struggled. As he came between them and t…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 3Tirian and the Unicorn rushed out to rescue him. But the Calormene was now far nearer to the door than they. Before they had covered half the distance he had flung Eustace in and…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 26"It is the door you came through with that Calormene five minutes ago," said Peter smiling.Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 29… the fire: he could hear them talking and their voices were like those of Calormenes. So he knew that he was looking out through the Stable door into the darkness of Lantern Waste where he had fou…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 10…me all kinds of creatures--Talking Beasts, Dwarfs, Satyrs, Fauns, Giants, Calormenes, men from Archenland, Monopods, and strange unearthly things from the remote islands or the unknown Western lan…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 34"A Calormene, Sire," said Several Dogs at once.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 10"Sir," said Emeth. "It is but a fashion of speech which we have in Calormen."Open passage →

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