Casani
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Casani was an Arabian tribe mentioned by Pliny[1].
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Kasania = Casani (Pliny.vi.32)
Jat Places Namesake
- Kasani = Casani (Pliny.vi.32). Kasani is a village in Chirawa tahsil in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan.
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Arabia.... We then find the Clari, the shore of Mamæum, on which there are gold mines, the region of Canauna, the nations of the Apitami and the Casani, the island of Devade, the fountain of Coralis, the Carphati, the islands of Calaëu and Amnamethus, and the nation of the Darræ.
History
Ghassanids
The Ghassanids (Arabic: الغساسنة, romanized: al-Ġasāsina, also Banu Ghassān (بنوغسان, romanized as: Banū Ġasān; Latin: Ghassanidae; Greek: Γασσανίδες, Gassanídes), also called the Jafnids,[3]were an Arab tribe which founded a kingdom. They emigrated from South Arabia in the early third century to the Levant.[4][5] Some merged with Hellenized Christian communities,[6] converting to Christianity in the first few centuries, while others may have already been Christians before emigrating north to escape religious persecution.[7]
After settling in the Levant, the Ghassanids became a client state to the Byzantine Empire and fought alongside them against the Sasanian Empire and their Arab vassals, the Lakhmids.[8]The lands of the Ghassanids also acted as a buffer zone protecting lands that had been annexed by the Romans against raids by Bedouins.
Few Ghassanids became Muslims following the Muslim conquest of the Levant; most Ghassanids remained Christian and joined Melkite and Syriac communities within what is now Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.[9]
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References
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 32
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 32
- ↑ Fisher, Greg (2018). "Jafnids". In Oliver Nicholson (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Vol. 2: J–Z. Oxford University Press. p. 804. ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8.
- ↑ Saudi Aramco World: The Kind of Ghassan. Barry Hoberman. http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198302/the.king.of.ghassan.htm
- ↑ Bowersock, G. W.; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg (1998). Late Antiquity: A guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674511705. Late Antiquity - Bowersock/Brown/Grabar.
- ↑ "Deir Gassaneh".
- ↑ Bowersock, G. W.; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg (1998). Late Antiquity: A guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674511705. Late Antiquity - Bowersock/Brown/Grabar.
- ↑ bury, john (January 1958). History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I. to the Death of Justinian, Part 2. courier dover publications. ISBN 9780486203997.
- ↑ Bowersock, G. W.; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg (1998). Late Antiquity: A guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674511705. Late Antiquity - Bowersock/Brown/Grabar.