نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق (Book of Roger — Geography with 70 Maps)

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It contains about one hundred islands, both small and large, inhabited and desolate, which we will mention when their place of mention arrives, with the help of God. From this Levantine Sea, two gulfs emerge. One of them is the Venetian Gulf; its beginning is from the East in the lands of Calabria, in the lands of the Romans, from near the city of Otranto original: "Adrunt". It passes in a northerly direction with a slight inclination to the West, passing the land of Bari to the coast of Saint Angel, then taking a direction toward the West to the city of Ancona, until it passes the coast of the Venetians, and its end reaches the lands of Aquileia. From there, its coastline turns back eastward to the lands of Croatia, Slavonia, and the lands of Ascalon, until it connects to the Levantine Sea from where it began. The length of this gulf from where it begins to its furthest end is one thousand one hundred miles. It contains fifteen islands, six of which are inhabited and the rest desolate, and we will mention that in its place.

The second gulf emerges from the Levantine Sea, called Nibtush Pontus/Black Sea. Its beginning is from the Levantine Sea where the mouth of the strait is, and the width of its opening there is a bowshot. It passes constricted, connecting to Constantinople, and its width there is four miles. It passes like that for sixty miles until it connects to the Sea of Nibtush, and the width of its opening there is six miles. The Sea of Nibtush passes in an easterly direction, connecting from the South to the land of Heraclea, to the land of Strobilos, to the coasts of Trebizond, to the land of the Ashkal, to the land of Lanba. The end of the gulf reaches there where the Khazar region is. From there, its coastline turns back toward Matrakha and connects to the lands of Russia and the lands of the Bulgars original: "Burjan", and the site of the Dnieper River, and passes to the site of the Danube River, until it reaches
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