Adriaan Reland (also known as Adriaen Reeland/Reelant, Hadrianus Relandus) (17 July 16765 February 1718John Gorton, A General Biographical Dictionary, 1838, Whittaker & Co.) was a noted Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist. Even though he never left the Netherlands, he made significant contributions to Middle Eastern and Asian linguistics and cartography, including Persia, Japan and Palestine during the biblical ages ( the Holy Land ).Zur Shalev, University of Haifa Digital Gallery, introduction to Reland's book Palaestina... more
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