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Córdoba
Europe's largest city, with street lighting and a library of 400,000 volumes
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The term *convivencia* is contested: the period saw both extraordinary cultural exchange and episodic persecution, and it is used politically in both directions. What is not in doubt is the transfer of knowledge — it was here and at Toledo that Greek philosophy, Indian mathematics and Arabic medicine were translated into Latin and reached Christian Europe.
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Córdoba in Spain had paved, lit streets, public baths and a library larger than all Europe's others combined. Muslims, Jews and Christians lived side by side — not without tension, but with a cooperation that was rare.
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