rouda

Updated: June 16, 2025

The banks of the Nile, in this place of the breadth of three thousand feet, were united by two bridges of sixty and of thirty boats, connected in the middle stream by the small island of Rouda, which was covered with gardens and habitations.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

Their last assault was bold and successful: they passed the ditch, which had been fortified with iron spikes, applied their scaling ladders, entered the fortress with the shout of "God is victorious!" and drove the remnant of the Greeks to their boats and the Isle of Rouda.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5