The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal. An Arabian traveller of the tenth century / Translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley.

  • al-Iṣṭakhrī, active 10th century.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The oriental geography of Ebn Haukal. An Arabian traveller of the tenth century / Translated from a manuscript in his own possession, collated with one preserved in the library of Eton College, by Sir William Ouseley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    j fjj wj* Of the Sea ofRoum, or the Mediterranean, and other matters. This sea comes from the ocean, and extends from that narrow bay, or pass, between the west (Africa), and the land of Andalus, Spain, to the coast of Sham, Syria, a distance of seven months journey. This sea is of a more regular and even outline than the Persian; for, after you pass the mouth of that bay before mentioned (Gibraltar), it is protracted in one line to the end. From Egypt to the extremity of the west Magreh, is a distance of an hundred and eighty merhileh. From the ex- tremity of the east to that of the west, is near four hundred merhileh. From ^ j Roum, one comes to Sham (Syria in the course of sixty merhileh. From Sham to ya*« Egypt is thirty merhileh. The distance of the journey between the land of Yajouge and jliAj Bulgar, and the country of Siklab, is about four hundred merhileh; and from Siklab to Roum, to the borders of Sham, sixty merhileh. From Roum to the extreme boundary of the land of the Nubians, about eighty merhileh.
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