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| | Saudi Aramco World : Arabs, Almonds, Sugar and Toledo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Their tolerance was repaid, for when King Alfonso VI of Castile reconquered Toledo in 1085, he offered generous conditions to its citizens, thus continuing a highly civilized period of convivencia, when Arabs, Christians and Jews lived prosperously and harmoniously in the city. |
 | | The Arabs of Toledo, he says, called their paste of sweet almonds and sugar mawthaban, which supposedly means 'seated king,' for, before they were baked, the pieces of marzipan were stamped with a coin that showed a king seated on his throne. |
 | | On the loading dock at the Delaviuda company in Sonseca, in Toledo province, about 25 tons of top-quality almonds, worth about $200,000, arrived in white sacks while I was standing there, just one of many deliveries. |
| saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199603/arabs.almonds.sugar.and.toledo.htm (2127 words) |
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