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Title: The universal geography : the earth and its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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modern Margah, which was held by the Franks from 1140 to 1285. All thesecastles were mostly built by European craftsmen, and nearly all the stonecuttersmarks are in Roman letters. Tarabulus, or Tripoli, one of those triple cities which occur in so manyparts of the Old World, is at once the seaport of North Libanon and the emporiumof Homs and Hamah on the Upper Orontes. In the Phoenician period it was thecommon mart of the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Arad, whence a title which atpresent it deserves on other grounds. For it really consists of three distinctquarters: the castle of Sanjal (Saint Giles), former residence of the Counts ofTripoli, standing on a hill above the winding valley of the Nahr-Kadisha; theupper town, the Pilgrims Mount of the Crusaders, which occupies the mostadvanced terrace of the spxus of Libanon on the left bank of the river; lastly the 392 SOUTH-WESTEEN ASIA. Marina, or El-Mina, lying oyer 2 miles to the north-west on a narrow peninsular, o bo
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where some remains may still be seen of mediseval fortifications. Some reefs lyinga third of a mile from the coast are all that now remains of the Bakar, or break- ANTIOCHIA—EUAD—TRIPOLI. 393 water, which formerly sheltered the port from the fierce western and northernBeing broken through at -various points, these works are no longer able to les. protect the anchorage, where shipwrecks often take place when northern windsprevail. During the Crusades Tripoli, at that time held by the people of Provenceand Languedoc, was the chief centre of trade between Syria and the West; besidesfour thousand silk and camelot, or camels hair, looms, it had a flourishing glass Fig. 178.—Tbipoli.Scale 1: 95,000.

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