"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎٢‎٤] (٣٨٨/٧٧)

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Andalus is now in the bands of the <Wc! the
Ommiades*; and the Ahhassians, the Abbassides, have
not yet snatched it from them ; nor has Abdullah yet obtained the
superiority over them. At the time that the glory of the Beni
Ommiah was declining, one of that family, who was at a I j T
Abilah, passed over to the oyJezireh Jlbel-ta-
rek, Gibraltar, and subdued Andalus, which still remains in the
possession of the Ommiah race.
These are the most remarkable cities of Andalus
Toleitlah, Sedounah, oC^jU Lurdah,
JFadi al hejareh, Barklialah, Bournuh
Hesan, oOjU Mardah, Maliou, Oiilc Ghafek, a J o J
Leilah, Fermouiuh (or Kannouiah),
Alourouduh, f Aselnliah. These are all considerable towns,
and for the greater part their buildings are of stone.
Behaneh is situated in the vicinity of deserts. Siring
on the coast of the ocean : there ambergris is found, but not in
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any place on the Mediterranean Sea. The author of this book
says, " At the time when I was in Syria, on the coast of the
The Ommiades retained their empire in Spain long after they had ceased to
govern the other regions of Islam; where the Abbassides began to reign A. H. 132,
(A. D. 748.) The Ommiades possessed Spain until the year of the Hegira 424,
(A. D. 1032.)—^ Shonah in D'H erbelot, Art. Ommiah.
f trlT* Sometimes written Nesn'n and Basn'v.
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