About the fourth century AD, Palladius, Bishop of Hellenopolis (360–430 AD), a classical Greek bishop, refers to the Maldives as Maniolae, in his document On the Races of the Indian and the Brahmans, adding that the magnet stone which attracts iron was produced in these islands.
<meaning-changed> About the fourth century AD, Palladius, Bishop of Hellenopolis (360–430 AD), a classical Greek bishop, refers to the Maldives as Maniolae, in his document On the Races of the Indian and the Brahmans, adding that the magnet stone which attracts iron was produced in these islands.
In the early fifth century AD, Palladius, Bishop of Hellenopolis (360–430 AD), a classical Greek bishop, refers to the Maldives as Maniolae, in his document On the Races of the Indian and the Brahmans, adding that the magnet stone which attracts iron was produced in these islands.