1502–1508: 5,000 Jews in Khaybar (jan 1, 1502 – jan 1, 1508)

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5,000 Jews lived in Khaibar / Khaybar (Saudi Arabia).
They went around naked, were five or six spans in height, and more black than any other color.
They lived entirely on sheep’s (lamb) flesh.

"At the end of eight days we found a mountain [Khaibar] which appeared to be ten or twelve miles in circumference, in which mountain there dwell four or five thousand Jews, who go naked, and are in height five or six spans, and have a feminine voice, and are more black than any
other colour. They live entirely upon the flesh of sheep, and eat nothing else. They are circumcised, and confess that they are Jews; and if they can get a Moor into their hands, they skin him alive."

Source:
Varthema, Lodovico de. 1510. The itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508, as translated from the original Italian edition of 1510, by John Winter Jones, F.S.A., in 1863 for the Hakluyt society; with a Discourse on Varthema and his travels in southern Asia, by Sir Richard Carnac Temple. p 14- 15. https://archive.org/details/itineraryofludov0000vart/page/14/mode/2up

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