Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
Adamnan's De Locis Sanctis (Author: Adamnan of Iona)
Chapter/toc 28
CONCERNING DAMASCUS
The great royal city of Damascus, as Arculf relates, who lodged for
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some days in it, is situated on a broad plain, surrounded by an ample
circuit of walls, and fortified moreover by several towers, with several
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olive orchards in the territory surrounding the walls. Four great rivers
too, which flow through it, bless it with happy increase. The king of the
Saracens holds the principality and has his court there, and in the same
place a great church has been raised in honour of the holy John the
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Baptist. In this city too, which they frequent, even the unbelieving
Saracens have constructed a church.