The sea of Nitas (Black Sea)
بحر نيطس (البحر الأسود)
A gulf branching from the Syrian sea at the mouth of Abdhah, narrow enough to cross with an arrow's flight there. It widens at Constantinople and runs east past the Rus, Burjan and the Dnieper and Danube rivers back to the Constantinople strait; about 1,300 miles long with six islands 1.
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The Sea of Nitas is the Black Sea under the naming of the card. al-Idrisi describes it as a gulf branching from the Syrian sea at the mouth of Abdhah, and its width there is the range of an arrow. It then connects at Constantinople and extends east to the mouths of the Russians, Burjan, the river Danapr and the river Danu, as far as the strait of Constantinople. Its length is about one thousand three hundred miles, and it has six islands. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 12
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.12
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