Details of evidence of Jewish community in the Byzantine Empire

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	Where was this Jewish community?	Candia (Heraklion; Chandax)
	When is there evidence of this Jewish community?	1461
	Which occupation?	Spy; Interpreter; Merchant
	Reference.	Manoussacas 1960: 132, no. ??', ll. 44 - 45; 140, no. ??', ll. 5 - 6; Starr 1942: 67-68; Jacoby 1972a: 69
	Link to Pleiades.	http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589802/

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"de Lange, N, A. Panayotov and G. Rees (2013):
Mapping the Jewish Communities of the
Byzantine Empire available at www.byzantinejewry.net"
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