Philologos (21 de marzo de 2003). «The Jews of Old-Time Medina». Forward. The Forward Association. Consultado el 4 de mayo de 2020. «...in the book of Esther,...the opening verse of the Hebrew text tells us that King Ahasuerus ruled over 127 medinas from India to Ethiopia — which the Targum, the canonical Jewish translation of the Bible into Aramaic, renders not as medinata, "cities," but as pilkhin, "provinces."».