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Tylos, the Glossary

Tylos (Τύλος) was the Greek exonym of ancient Bahrain in the classical era, during which the island was a center of maritime trade and pearling in the Erythraean Sea.^[1]

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Ancient Greek geography of Arabia
History of Bahrain

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Androsthenes of Thasos

Androsthenes (Ἀνδροσθένης; literally meaning: "Man's Strength") of Thasos, son of Callistratus, was one of the admirals of Alexander the Great.

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Ardashir I

Ardashir I (𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭥; transl), also known as Ardashir the Unifier (180–242 AD), was the founder of the Persian Sasanian Empire.

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Arwad

Arwad (translit; translit), the classical Aradus, is a town in Syria on an eponymous island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Awal

Awal (أوال) is an ancient name of Bahrain, an island country in the Arabian peninsula. Tylos and Awal are history of Bahrain.

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Bahrain

Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.

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Characene

Characene (Ancient Greek: Χαρακηνή), also known as Mesene (Μεσσήνη) or Meshan, was a kingdom founded by the Iranian Hyspaosines located at the head of the Persian Gulf mostly within modern day Iraq.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Dilmun

Dilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian:,Transliteration: Similar text: later 𒉌𒌇(𒆠), NI.TUKki.

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Erythraean Sea

The Erythraean Sea (Ἐρυθρὰ Θάλασσα, Erythrà Thálassa) was a former maritime designation that always included the Gulf of Aden, and at times other seas between Arabia Felix and the Horn of Africa.

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Harriet Crawford

Harriet Elizabeth Walston Crawford, Lady Swinnerton-Dyer (born 1937) is a British archaeologist.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Hyspaosines

Hyspaosines (also spelled Aspasine) was the founder of Characene, a kingdom situated in southern Mesopotamia.

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Kuwait

Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.

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Meredates of Characene

Meredates (𐭌𐭕𐭓𐭃𐭕 Mihrdāt) was a Parthian prince who ruled the state of Characene, a vassal of the Parthian Empire and important trading port, which he ruled from to 150/151.

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Muharraq

Muharraq (al-Muḥarraq) is Bahrain's third-largest city and served as its capital until 1932 when it was replaced by Manama.

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Nearchus

Nearchus or Nearchos (Νέαρχος; – 300 BC) was one of the Greek officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. Tylos and Nearchus are history of Bahrain.

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Nestorianism

Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings.

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Parthia

Parthia (𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 Parθava; 𐭐𐭓𐭕𐭅Parθaw; 𐭯𐭫𐭮𐭥𐭡𐭥 Pahlaw) is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran.

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Phoenicia

Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.

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Qal'at al-Bahrain

The Qal'at al-Bahrain (قلعة البحرين; Forte de Barém), also known as the Bahrain Fort or Portuguese Fort, is an archaeological site located in Bahrain.

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Samaheej

Samaheej (سماهيج Samāhīj) is a village in Bahrain on the northern coast of Muharraq Island.

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.

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Shapur I

Shapur I (also spelled Shabuhr I; Šābuhr) was the second Sasanian King of Kings of Iran.

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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Strategos

Strategos, plural strategoi, Latinized strategus, (στρατηγός, pl.; Doric Greek: στραταγός, stratagos; meaning "army leader") is used in Greek to mean military general.

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Theophrastus

Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος||godly phrased) was a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.

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Tyre, Lebanon

Tyre (translit; translit; Týros) or Tyr, Sur, or Sour is a city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a small population.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylos

Also known as Mishmahig.