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King Basil

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Male
Social role
  • State official

Description / Bio

Two potential candidates for who he could be: either a king of Alodia at Soba, or a king at Makuria (ca. 1089 CE).

Select bibliography

  1. Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024).
Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "King Basil," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/king-basil/, accessed June 30, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/king-basil/