District XVII was, according to Herodotus, the 17th satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. It comprised the Paricanians, "Asiatic Ethiopians" ("burnt faced ones", literally "dark skinned ones"; referring to Indian people), Oreitians, and Ichthyophagi.
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- Mitchell, Daniel (2022-10-11). "Ethiopians: Herodotos on southern peoples at the ends of the earth (mid-fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland". Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- Vasunia, Phiroze (2016-03-01). "Ethiopia and India: Fusion and Confusion in British Orientalism". Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est (51): 21–43. doi:10.4000/eastafrica.314. ISSN 2071-7245. S2CID 164634787.
- "Satraps and satrapies - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
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