Basque <(h)anka>

[X99Lynx at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/9/2000 10:04:12 PM, edsel at glo.be wrote:

>Persian craftsmen, architects etc. played an important role in what is now
>perceived as expressions of 'Arab' or Muslim material culture. The most
>likely place to find these people during the Middle Ages would be the Arab
>occupied part of Spain, and nowhere else.

Just a note.  In Faust's Metropolis, the author mentions the find of over
1000 Arab coins in the old Slavic Wendish town under Berlin (the dates would
be around 900AD I think.)  Though this doesn't necessarily prove the presence
of tradespeople, it does prove the presence of trade.  And one might follow
the other, if not in form of architects, then in the perhaps in the form of
shoemakers.

Regards,
Steve Long