Editing Radhanite (section)

===Text of Ibn Khordadbeh's account===
In his '''''[[Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Ibn Khordadbeh)|Book of Roads and Kingdoms]]''''' ({{langx|ar|كِتَاب ٱلْمَسَالِك وَٱلْمَمَالِك}}, ''Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-Mamālik''), Ibn Khordadbeh listed four routes along which Radhanites traveled in the following account.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abulafia |first=David |url=http://archive.org/details/greatseahumanhis0000abul |title=The great sea : a human history of the Mediterranean |date=2011 |publisher=London : Allen Lane |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-7139-9934-1}}</ref>

:These merchants speak [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Medieval Greek|Roman]],{{ref|Roman}} the [[Old French|Frank]],{{ref|Frankish}} [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and [[Slavic languages|Slav]] languages. They journey from West to East, from East to West, partly on land, partly by sea. They transport from the West [[eunuch]]s, female slaves, boys, [[silk|brocade]], [[beaver|castor]], [[marten]] and other furs, and [[sword]]s. They take ship from ''Firanja'' ''(France{{ref|France}})'', on the [[Mediterranean Sea|Western Sea]], and make for ''Farama'' ''([[Pelusium]])''. There they load their goods on [[camel]]-back and [[camel train|go by land]] to ''al-Kolzum'' ([[Suez]]), a distance of twenty-five [[parasang|farsakhs]]. They embark in the [[Red Sea|East Sea]] and sail from al-Kolzum to [[Medina|al-Jar]] and [[Jeddah|al-Jeddah]], then they go to [[Sindh|Sind]], India, and China. On their return from China they carry back [[musk]], [[agarwood|aloe]]s, [[camphor]], [[cinnamon]], and other products of the Eastern countries to al-Kolzum and bring them back to Farama, where they again embark on the Western Sea. Some make sail for [[Constantinople]] to sell their goods to the [[Byzantine Empire|Romans]]; others go to the palace of the [[List of Frankish kings|King of the Franks]] to place their goods. Sometimes these Jewish merchants, when embarking from the land of the [[Franks]], on the Western Sea, make for [[Antioch]] ''(at the head of the [[Orontes River]])''; thence by land to al-Jabia ([[al-Hanaya]] on the bank of the [[Euphrates]]), where they arrive after three days' march.  There they embark on the Euphrates and reach [[Baghdad]], whence they sail down the [[Tigris]], to [[al-Ubulla|al-Obolla]]. From al-Obolla they sail for [[Oman]], [[Sindh]], Hind, and China.

:These different journeys can also be made by land. The merchants that start from Spain or France go to [[Sus al-Aksa]] ''(in [[Morocco]])'' and then to [[Tangier]], whence they walk to [[Kairouan]] and the [[List of capitals of Egypt|capital of Egypt]]. Thence they go to ar-[[Ramla]], visit [[Damascus]], al-[[Kufa]], Baghdad, and al-[[Basra]], cross [[Ahvaz]], [[Fars province|Fars]], [[Kerman]], Sind, Hind, and arrive in China.

:Sometimes, also, they take the route behind [[Rome]] and, passing through the country of the [[Slavs]], arrive at [[Khamlij|Khamlidj]], the capital of the [[Khazars]]. They embark on the [[Caspian Sea|Jorjan Sea]], arrive at [[Balkh]], betake themselves from there across the [[Amu Darya|Oxus]], and continue their journey toward Yurt, [[Toquz Oghuz|Toghuzghuz]], and from there to China.{{ref|Khordadbeh}}