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Manuel Comnenes, who reigned from 1143 to 1180. These names are corrupt orthographies of the Greek titles in the Hebrew. Manuel being an emperor, Benjamin names all his great officers kings. Psianki may, perhaps, be Poland, and Buria Bavaria. The Arabs, so called from their supposed ancestor, Ismael. Perhaps Blachernae.
This King Emanuel built a great palace for the seat of his Government upon the sea-coast, in addition to the palaces which his fathers built, and he called its name Blachernae . He overlaid its columns and walls with gold and silver, and engraved thereon representations of the battles before his day and of his own combats.
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