Suvaliya

Suvaliya (सुवालिया) Suwala (सुवाला) (Suvalia, Suwaliya, Suwalia) is a Jat Gotra.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Suvaliya = Suelleni (Pliny.vi.32).
• Suvaliya = Suani (Pliny.vi.4)

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions The region of Themiscyra, and the nations therein...At the mouth of the Phasis, at a distance of seventy miles from Absarus, are some islands, which, however, have no name. After passing this, we come to another river, the Charieis,³⁷ and the nation of the Salæ, by the ancients called Phthirophagi,³⁸ as also Suani.³⁹ The river Chobus⁴⁰ flows from the Caucasus through the country of the Suani.

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37 It is doubtful whether this is the same river as that mentioned by Strabo under the name of Chares. D'Anville says that its modern name is Enguri.

38 Or "Feeders on Lice;" so called, according to Strabo, from the extreme filthiness of their habits.

39 There is a nation in this vicinity still called by a similar name. Professor Pallas, who visited them, says that nothing can equal their dishonesty, rapacity, and voracity. Parisot suggests that they are probably the descendants of the Phthirophagi of Pliny.

40 Now called the Khalira, according to D'Anville.

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Arabia....Up to the Nabatæi⁴⁶ the ancients joined the Thimanei; at present they have next to them the Taveni, and then the Suelleni, the Arraeeni⁴⁷, and the Areni⁴⁸, whose town is the centre of all the commerce of these parts.

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46 Whose chief city was Petra, previously mentioned.

47 Supposed by some writers to have been the ancestors of the Saracens, so famous in the earlier part of the middle ages. Some of the MSS., indeed, read "Sarraceni."

48 Their town is called Arra by Ptolemy.

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