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<p>Created page with &quot;Gervais de Tilbury &#039;&#039;(c. 1209-18)&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;Otia imperialia ad ottonem IV. Imperatorem.&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;Latin.&#039;&#039; ... fluvium Nilum, qui de littore incipientis maris rubri videtur emergere ...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Gervais de Tilbury<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;(c. 1209-18)&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Otia imperialia ad ottonem IV. Imperatorem.&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Latin.&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> ... fluvium Nilum, qui de littore incipientis maris rubri videtur emergere in loco, qui dicitur Mossilonem portus; deinde ad occasum diu profluens, facit insulam nomine Meroen medio sui...<br /> <br /> Porro insula Meroe in capite Aethiopiae est, locus, in quo umbra absumitur in aestate. Illic ebenus abundat.<br /> <br /> <br /> (&#039;&#039;The river Nile, as it seems, raises from the shores of the Red Sea and begins in a community that is named port Mossilonem; after which it flows over a longer distance in the direction of the West, and in the middle is an island named Meroe...&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;The Island of Meroe is located at the beginning of Ethiopia ; it is a place where the shadow disappears in summer. Ebony trees grow here in abundance.&#039;&#039;)<br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Selected edition&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti. Tome III.IV, ed. Y. Kamel (Leiden: 1934).<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literary Sources]]<br /> [[Category:Occidental]]</div>

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