Note 166 The name of Andalusia is applied by the Arabs not only to the modern province, but to the wholc peninsula of Spain (Geograph. Nub. p. 151; D'Herbelot, Biblioth Orient. p. 114, 1l5) . The etymolo& gy has been most improbably deduced from Vandalusia, country of the Vandals (D'A l'Europe, p. 146, 147, etc.). But the Handalusia of Casiri, which signifies, in& Arabic, the region of the evening, of the West, in a word, the Hesperia of the Greeks, is perfectly apposite (Biblioth. Arabico-Hispana, tom. ii.p. 327 etc.)]

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