Silko (king of the Nobades) - ܡܠܟܐ
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“Silko was king of the Nobades, ruling from c.530 to c.560. Joh. Eph., EH 4.6, does not mention him by name, yet recounts how both Theodora and Justinian sent missionaries to the king of the Nobades.” 1
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- Silko (king of the Nobades)
- ܡܠܟܐ
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c.530-c.560
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- 1 Artur Obluski, The Rise of Nobadia: Social Changes in Northern Nubia in Late Antiquity (Warsaw: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2014)., p: 188.
- 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 183; 185; 186; 188; 233; 242.
- 3 Artur Obluski, The Rise of Nobadia: Social Changes in Northern Nubia in Late Antiquity (Warsaw: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2014)., p: 36.
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