Hipparos' Wind - Hipparos' Wind

Japanese: ヒッパロスの風 - ヒッパロスのかぜ
Hipparos' Wind - Hipparos' Wind
A monsoon used in trade connecting India with the Mediterranean coast and the Arabian Peninsula. In the Indian Ocean, southwesterly winds blow periodically in summer and northeasterly winds in winter. In the middle of the 1st century BCE, Arab merchants engaged in maritime trade discovered that using these monsoons was faster than traveling along the Indian Ocean coast. It is named after the legend that it was discovered by the Greek Hippalos in the 1st century BCE, but it is thought that the Phoenicians, Indians, and others actually used it before the Greeks.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
インドと地中海沿岸,アラビア半島とを結ぶ貿易に利用された季節風。インド洋では夏の南西風と冬の北東風の季節風が定期的に吹く。海上交易を行っていたアラブ商人たちは前1世紀の中葉に,この季節風を利用すればインド洋沿岸ルートよりも航海が早いことを知った。前1世紀のギリシア人ヒッパロスHippalosが発見したという伝承によってこの名で呼ばれるが,実際にはギリシア人以前にフェニキア人,インド人などが利用していたと考えられる。

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