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Rumah (Rome)

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A great city with a stone wall, a river covered with copper slabs and a great church, and a palace of the king called the Papa; al-Idrisi calls it a pillar of the Christians, about fifty miles from Pisa. 1

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Rome is a great city of many buildings. Al-Idrisi describes its wall as built of stone, and says that in it there is a river covered with copper slabs, a great church, and the king's palace called al-Babba. He counts it as one of the pillars of the Christians, and it lies about fifty miles from Bish. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 751
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.751
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