Florence
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A civilised city with markets, craftsmen and wealth; seventy miles from Lucca and some fifteen miles from Sanqalilya on the Anwat hills. 1
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Florence is a civilised town with markets, craftsmen and wealth. It lies seventy miles from Lucca and fifteen miles from Sanqalilia, on Mount Anwat, according to al-Idrisi. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 754
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.754
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