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    The Radhanites or Radanites (Hebrew: רדנים, romanized: Radanim; Arabic: الرذنية, romanized: ar-Raðaniyya) were early medieval Jewish merchants, active...
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    explorers List of travelers Maritime timeline Portuguese discoveries Radhanites Silk Road Spice trade The Exploration Museum Timeline of maritime migration...
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  • Jewish merchant of the ninth and tenth centuries CE and may have been a Radhanite. It is unknown if he was the "Joseph of Spain" who authored numerous mathematical...
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    Germanic lands of Central Europe. and may have been a staging post for Radhanite Jewish traders between Western Europe, Itil and China. These commercial...
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    slave market of al-Andalus are said to have been dominated by the Jewish Radhanite merchants. How dominating the Jewish merchants were is unknown, but Jewish...
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    the institution of the Exilarchate, and Jewish merchants such as the Radhanites. Gil was professor emeritus of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies...
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    and Southeast Asia. Some trade did occur in the west. For instance, Radhanites were a medieval guild or group (the precise meaning of the word is lost...
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    conquests of Alexander the Great and his successors. Another source was the Radhanite Jewish trade networks of merchants established as go-betweens between...
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  • spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Mainz in Western Germany The Radhanites: an influential group of Jewish merchants and financiers active in France...
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    Ages. The rise of Islam brought a significant change to the trade as Radhanite Jewish and Arab merchants, particularly from Egypt, eventually took over...
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  • Trade networks are very old and in this picture the blue line shows the trade network of the Radhanites, c. 870 CE....
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    A map of the trade network of the Radhanites, as reported in the Book of Roads and Kingdoms....
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    trade routes leading east to Kyiv and Bukhara, Jewish merchants, known as Radhanites, crossed Silesia. One of them, a diplomat and merchant from the Moorish...
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    Caucasus and Tartary) were important sources. Viking, Arab, Greek, and Radhanite Jewish merchants were all involved in the slave trade during the Early...
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    Tang dynasty poetry. The Tang dynasty purchased Western slaves from the Radhanite Jews. Tang Chinese soldiers and pirates enslaved Koreans, Turks, Persians...
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    international trade was dominated by Middle Eastern merchants, often Jewish Radhanites. Merovingian law was not universal law equally applicable to all; it was...
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    and Neolog Hungary and Carpathian Ruthenia Hungarian  Iceland 10–30 Radhanites Iceland North European  Ireland 2,600 4,476 Ireland West European  Italy...
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    slave market of al-Andalus are said to have been dominated by the Jewish Radhanite merchants. Pope Gelasius (492) permitted Jews to transport slaves from...
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  • this work, Przemyśl and Kyiv are mentioned as trading sites along the Radhanite trade network. ספר הדינים, מבוא מאת אברהם גרוסמן, הוצאת מרכז זלמן שז"ר...
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    Greeks of Crimea. Through a network of Jewish itinerant merchants, or Radhanites, they were in contact with the trade emporia of India and Spain. Once...
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    science, was from Ray. One of the etymologies proposed for the name of the Radhanites—a group of merchants, some of Jewish origin, who kept open the Eurasian...
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    slave market of al-Andalus are said to have been dominated by the Jewish Radhanite merchants. While Christians were not allowed to enslave Christians and...
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    allowed long distance trade to occur in safety, including groups like the Radhanite Jews who traded as far as China to Tabriz, as well as the trade networks...
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    870, Pelusium is mentioned as a major port in the trade network of the Radhanite merchants. In 1118, Baldwin I of Jerusalem razed the city to the ground...
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    Kingdoms (Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-Mamālik) ca. 870 describes the Jewish Radhanite merchants as operating over a wide arc from Western Europe to China. It...
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    black pepper or papyrus almost disappeared under the Carolingians. The Radhanite Jewish traders were nearly the only group to maintain trade between the...
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  • Kiribati Oceanian  North Korea North Korea and Radhanites Asian  South Korea South Korea and Radhanites Asian  Kosovo Kosovo South-East European  Kuwait...
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    Much of the Radhanites' Indian Ocean trade would have depended on coastal cargo-ships such as this dhow....
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  • in contemporary Russia Jewish American Jews European Jews Ottoman Jews Radhanite Jews[citation needed] Elsewhere Chinese in Southeast Asia Chinese and...
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  • had a Jewish population and was probably the country of origin of the Rādhānite merchants. The name, however, does not appear in any Hebrew texts. The...
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