Idly pondering earliest ref to Britain by someone living outside bounds of Roman Empire...Ibn Rustah, E10thC Persia? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/uFxCvOzK1F
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If Britain is name off coast of France+Spain, then=earliest Chinese/Korean reference... Map incl 100+ European names e.g Marseilles+Germany!
The E13thC Zhu Fan Zhi has info on several places in west, but not Britain; does have this nice bit on Mt Etna tho'! https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023289345#page/n167/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/GoM7T4KRRF
The Shapur inscription (c. 262 CE) does not mention Britain, alas, but Germany and Spain both appear http://parthiansources.com/texts/skz/skz-19/ …
oh, thanks! :) Yes, that's a nice early ref for those areas!
Close-up of Europe+Med (unshaded) on E15thC Korean Kangnido map. Britain poss=label in Atlantic, left; Pharos of Alexandria shown as pagoda.pic.twitter.com/1CucojkKeK
With regard to India, earliest evidence of an awareness of Britain seems to come from the 16thC e.g the Ain-i-Akbari https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaindi01indigoog#page/n133/mode/2up …
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