Georgios 250

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitE/M IX
Dates835 (taq) / 836 (tpq)
EthnicityNubian
LocationsNubia;
Baghdad;
Nubia (officeplace)
TitlesKing, Nubia (office)
Textual SourcesBar Hebraeus, Chronographia, tr. E. A. W. Budge, The Chronography of Abu 'l-Faraj (London, 1932; repr. Amsterdam, 1976) (history);
Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle)

Georgios 250 was king of Nubia; he visited the caliph al-Mutasim 1 at Baghdad in the year 1147 Sel. (835/836): Mich. Syr. III 90-94 = Bar Hebr., pp. 134-135 (where the visit is described in some detail).

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