Collins, W W 1862- · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 50
ordova becameColonia Patricia, the capital of Hispania Ulteria. Butit was left to the Infidel to make it what is now so diffi-cult to realise—the first city in Western Europe.The zenith of its fame was reached during the tenthcentury, when the mighty Abderrhaman III., ruler ofthe Omayyades reigned,… … CORDOBA. Fountain in the Court of Oranges. CORDOVA whose worship were provided three hundred Mosques,and for whose ablutions nine hundred baths were nomore than was necessary. (The arch-destroyer of allthings Infidel, Philip II., demolished these.) It wasthe centre of art and literature, students…
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