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After Bagdad was founded in 762 the Gotlandic merchants went on the Russian 
rivers all the way to the Volga and the Caspian Sea and traded with the Islamic
Caliphate which they called Særkland. Gotland has today the worlds largest collection
of coins from the Islamic Caliphate, most of them minted in Bagdad.
   The first documented contact with a delegation of Gotlandic merchants (Rhos)
to visit Miklagarðr (Constantinople) is in 838. A coin with the emperor Theophilos
was found in the large silver hoard at Spillings.
   Miklagarðr was the Gotlandic name for Constantinople.
   The Gotlanders were deeply involved in Miklagarðr during the time of the Macedonian

The Gotlandic Merchant Republic and its Medieval Churches

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Maria Rashidi, 62, utsattes för en attack med syra utanför sitt hem i Rinkeby då hon ville skilja sig från sin man. Hennes

ansikte brändes sönder och hon förlorade stora delar av sin syn. – Det kändes som att mitt ansikte rann av, säger Maria

Rashidi som nu skrivit en bok om sitt liv. Vi på B4Press är glada att få ge ut boken.

 

Expressen, 19 april 2018

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