Details of evidence of Jewish community in the Byzantine Empire

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	Details of evidence 539
	Where was this Jewish community?	Nikomedeia (Izmit)
	When is there evidence of this Jewish community?	1339
	Which sect?	Rabbanites
	Which occupation?	Ritual slaughterer
	Reference.	Ankori 1959: 136, n. 184; Bowman 1985: 270, no. 61
	Link to Pleiades.	http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511337

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"de Lange, N, A. Panayotov and G. Rees (2013):
Mapping the Jewish Communities of the
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Details of evidence 539