The Syrian sea (Mediterranean)

Al-Idrisi describes the Syrian Sea, which is the Mediterranean, as issuing from the Dark Sea in the west at the strait, where its width is about eighteen miles. ²

It runs eastward past the coasts of the Maghrib, Ifriqiya, Egypt, al-Sham, Antioch, Constantinople, Sicily, the lands of the Romans and al-Andalus. Its length is estimated at about one thousand one hundred and thirty-six farsakhs, and it contains about a hundred islands. ²