[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.campbell-1896-gujarat) › c19.2 # Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.2 Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.2 - **Language:** English ### [c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.campbell-1896-gujarat.c19.2) The earliest Arab reference to Gujarát is by the merchant Sulaimán¹ A.D. 851 (A.H. 237).² Other Arab accounts follow up to A.D. 1263, a period of over four centuries. Sulaimán describes Jurz or Gujarát as bordering on the kingdom of the Balhára (A.D. 743-974) and as forming a tongue of land, rich in horses and camels and said to have "mines of gold and silver, exchanges being carried on by means of these metals in dust." - [Previous: c18.s1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.campbell-1896-gujarat.c18.s1.42) - [Next: c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.campbell-1896-gujarat.c19.3) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.campbell-1896-gujarat.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.campbell-1896-gujarat.c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.campbell-1896-gujarat.c19.2) · Pramāṇa