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Cordoba Bridge

قنطرة قرطبة

A bridge of seventeen arches, about fifty spans between each pair, rising some thirty cubits over the river, with a stone dam beneath it. 1

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A bridge in Cordoba with seventeen arches. Between one arch and the next there are about fifty spans (shibr), and its back rises above the valley about thirty cubits. 2

Beneath it there is a dam made of stone, according to al-Idrisi. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 579
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.579
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