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I know, a relatively trivial (okay, very trivial) riff on history, but I'm composing a novella that is set in the 14th-century Mediterranean world, that is largely congruent with real history, where the calendar happens to incorporate parts of the Judaic/Babylonian (and later Arabic) system.

For example, the date: AD July, 381 is represented by Tammuz, 9th Indiction, 5889.

It's just a minor conceit, but I began thinking of how and why it might have occurred.

Any thoughts?

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