.@Ballandalus @caitlinrgreen Rum was not limited to Byzantines, e.g: Italians were Rum (Source R Dozy), & Rus in pragraph 10 were Rum. 1/2
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus NB: Al-Frinjah الفرنجة in Arabic is one word for :Franks, Varangians, Western Europeans specially French, so> -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus>the differentiation comes from reading the context carefully, eg: Medieval Arab historians usually used word> -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus> Al-Frinjah الفرنجة when they wrote about the Crusaders. It is so elastic expression as: Rum. -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus >you can see in the example I gave yesterday, I mean Aq-Sunqur Al-Rumi, he was described before his conversion> -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus>to Islam as: Frinji, & after his conversion he became: Al-Rumi, & both indicate he is European in origin.> -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus So when you read Al-Frinji, Al-Frinjah,Rum, Al-Rumi, read the context carefully & don't go to automatic meaning -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus From above I say: Author of the Hudūd al-’Ālam (Paragraph 32) didn't consider Britain (al-Baritiniya) to be a> -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus>part of the Byzantine realm when he wrote: “[it is] the last land of Rum on the coast of the Ocean, but> - 5 more replies
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus I found that name in book :The Thirteenth tribe, by: Arthur Koestler; Chapter: 3, his references: J.B. Bury &> -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus> & A. Toynbee. I can give you the names of the references, of the 2 authors what Koestler used in his book. I > -
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus> I know the theory of 13 tribes are not accepted now, but our issue now is Baher Al-Frinjah.
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus Do you have any map else has another name for Baltic sea?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@caitlinrgreen@Ballandalus I am checking my sources right now.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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