Adriaan Reland
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Adriaan Reland (also known as Adriaen Reeland/Reelant, Hadrianus Relandus) (17 July 1676 ā 5 February 1718[1]) was a noted Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist.[2] Even though he never left the Netherlands,[3][4] he made significant contributions to Middle Eastern and Asian linguistics and cartography, including Persia, Japan and Palestine during the biblical ages ( the Holy Land ).[5]