Hora
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Hora (होरा)[1] is a Gotra of the Jats. Haura is a Baloch Jat clan found in Afghanistan.[2] [3] Hor (होर) is a Munda tribe in Singhbhum.[4]
Origin
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Hora = Horatae (Pliny.vi.23)
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Hora = Hora (Pliny.vi.35)
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[5] mentions Ethiopia.... Graucome, Emeus, the Pidibotæ, the Hebdomecontacometæ4, Nomades, who dwell in tents, Cyste, Macadagale, Proaprimis, Nups, Detrelis, Patis, the Ganbreves, the Magasnei, Segasmala, Crandala, Denna, Cadeuma, Thena, Batta, Alana, Mascoa, the Scamini, Hora, situate on an island, and then Abala, Androgalis, Sesecre, the Malli, and Agole.
4 Meaning, "the people who live in seventy villages."
History
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References
- ↑ O.S.Tugania:Jat Samuday ke Pramukh Adhar Bindu,p.64, s.n. 2599
- ↑ Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat/Parishisht-I, s.n. ह-46, P.1057
- ↑ An Inquiry Into the Ethnography of Afghanistan By H. W. Bellew, 1891, p.186
- ↑ Alexander Cunningham: The Ancient Geography of India/Eastern India, p.506
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 35
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