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Cathedral cities of Spain (1909)

Collins, William Wiehe, 1862- · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 67

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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, and did not begin to… … coitnor.A. Foiinluin ill the Court oj Orange 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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