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The lands of Italy and the lands of the Ottoman Empire are in the lands of Europe, which are the lands of the Romans, the Albanians, and the Balkans, with a damma on the baa and a sukoon on the sheen, and the Serbs with a yaa or alif, and the Bulgarians, the Vlachs, and the Moldavians, with a damma on the baa and a sukoon on the ghain. So you know that the interpretation of some translators of the lands of Europe as the lands of Africa is a misconception, unless it means the lands of Africa. This applies to what is in the lands of the Sublime State, but it is contradicted by the fact that the Ottomans limit the lands of Africa to what is outside their lands in Europe, and they call their lands the lands of Rome. Although they also use the term Rome, they mean what is in the lands of Africa and some of the lands under their rule in Asia. Asia is also bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the lands of Europe and Africa, to the south by the Sea of India and the Sea of China, and to the east by the Southern Ocean and the Sea of Bor, with a kasra on the baa, a sukoon on the haa, a fatha on the raa, a sukoon on the noon, and a taa or kaaf. It is also divided into ten original regions: one to the north, which is the land of Sir, with a kasra on the seen and yaa, and seven in the middle, which are the lands of the Sublime Ottoman State, which are Syria, Armenia, Kurdistan, Baghdad, Basra, Cyprus, and others, and the lands of Persia, and the lands of Balochistan, with a damma on the baa and a sukoon on the seen, and the lands of Qabulistan, with a kasra on the lam and a sukoon on the seen, and Afghanistan, with a fatha on the hamza, a sukoon on the faa, a fatha on the ghain, a kasra on the noon, and a sukoon on the seen, and the lands of the Great Tatars, and the lands of China, and the lands of Babunia, with a kasra on the baa, and two in the south, which are the lands of the Arabs and the lands of India. The lands of Hijaz and the lands of Wahhabism are under the rule of the Sublime State, and the lands of Yemen are under its protection, and the lands of Oman are independent, and these are the regions of the Arabian Peninsula. These are the provinces of Asia, then the lands of Africa, which are bounded to the north by the Sea of Rome and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, with a fatha on the hamza and a sukoon.