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Al-gharb al-kabiir, I believe. It's been awhile, but I can't remember if you need both al's, or just the second one... On Sep 27, 2009, at 11◊58 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the Arabic for "The great Western lands" and/or "The Great West" would be? An ArabTeX transliteration, if you know it, would also be greatly appreciated. <http://129.69.218.213/arabtex/doc/arabdoc.pdf> p. 18/20 ff. I need this for my alternative history Lucus where South America, which there obviously must have another name, was discovered by Arabs from Spain in the 8th or 9th century.
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