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    Cosmas Indicopleustes (Koinē Greek: Κοσμᾶς Ἰνδικοπλεύστης, lit. 'Cosmas who sailed to India'; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a merchant and later hermit...
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  • Christopher and Cosmas (fl. 1587–1592), Japanese explorers Cosmas Damian Asam (1686-1739), German painter and architect Cosmas Indicopleustes (fl. 6th century...
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    did not patronize Buddhism. The 6th-century Alexandrian traveler Cosmas Indicopleustes states that the Hephthalites in India reached the zenith of its...
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    writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes. The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some translations...
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  • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hofburg, Vienna. Around 550 Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote the copiously illustrated Christian Topography, a work partly...
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    Dictionary as the "Dictionary of Malabar and English". From the time of Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century CE) itself, the Arab sailors used to call Kerala Male...
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    third-century Monumentum Adulitanum, an Aksumite inscription recorded by Cosmas Indicopleustes in the sixth century. The inscription refers to a people called...
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    infinite number of stars and the resulting heat in the Cosmos was Cosmas Indicopleustes, a 6th-century Greek monk from Alexandria, who states in his Topographia...
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    Byzantine Empire Hierocles (author of Synecdemus) (6th century) Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century) Stephanus of Byzantium (6th century) History of geography...
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    inscription in Eritrea known as the Monumentum Adulitanum recorded by Cosmas Indicopleustes, in around the mid to late 3rd century (possibly c. 240–c. 260)...
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    not submerged!" "Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography. Preface to the online edition". www.ccel.org. "Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography...
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  • 4th century CE) called the island Sinhala (or the Lion kingdom). Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century CE) named it Σιελεδίβα : Sielediba or SieleDiva (Diva...
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    Matthew in Hebrew language in the 2nd century. Byzantine traveller Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote of Syrian Christians he met in Malabar and Sri Lanka in the...
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  • archaeologists, it is known about through the copying of the inscription by Cosmas Indicopleustes, a 6th-century Greek traveler-monk. The text narrates the king's...
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    the term Tigray, first appears in a 10th-century gloss to Cosmas Indicopleustes Indicopleustes, i.e. after the Aksumite period; according to this source...
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  • Earth. The last Greek author known to maintain this position was Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century AD. All models of early Greek cosmology shared...
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    five books written by Cosmas Indicopleustes and expanded to ten and eventually to twelve books at around 550 AD. Cosmas Indicopleustes, the author of the...
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    identified Lactantius, author of Institutiones Divinae (c. 310), and Cosmas Indicopleustes, author of Christian Topography (c. 548), as evidence of a medieval...
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    (about 1 m or 3 feet) in length, and is impossible to capture alive. Cosmas Indicopleustes, in the Christian Topography, writes that he did not see the animal...
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    Library. 1 June 2005. Retrieved 24 October 2012. Cosmas Indicopleustes (2010). The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk: Translated from the Greek...
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    ) as an animal-based fragrance. The 6th-century Greek explorer Cosmas Indicopleustes mentioned it as a product obtained from India. Soon afterwards Arab...
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    established between tribes in Africa in their trade with India. Cosmas Indicopleustes describes this practiced in Azania, where officials from Axum traded...
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  • Rhapta. Rhapta is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium and Cosmas Indicopleustes. Stephanus of Byzantium and Ptolemy write that Rhapta was a metropolis...
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  • edited a translation and commentary of the first five books of Cosmas Indicopleustes' "Christian Topography" (1992). In the 1990s he became increasingly...
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    which the lost territories were returned to the Eastern Romans. Cosmas Indicopleustes ('Cosmas who sailed to India') was a Greek-Egyptian trader, and later...
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    centuries, in which period manuscripts preserving the inscriptions of Cosmas Indicopleustes (fl. 6th century) contain notes on his writings including the mention...
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    writer Cosmas Indicopleustes had actually made the journey, and he described and sketched some of what he saw in his topography. Indicopleustes means "Cosmas...
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    language. There are many historical references regarding to the town. Cosmas Indicopleustes, a Greek monk referred to the port of Mangarouth. Pliny, a Roman...
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  • divisions of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire. Cosmas Indicopleustes, (6th century) also known as "Cosmas the Monk", was an Alexandrian merchant. By the...
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    far as Tang-dynasty China. ~550: Byzantine traveler and author Cosmas Indicopleustes completes his work Christian Topography describing geographical...
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