Monreale, a city of Sicily, 5 miles SW. of Palermo. The 'royal mount,' from which it gets its name, is 1231 feet high, and on it stands the famous cruciform Norman cathedral (1176), which measures 333 by 132 feet, and within is entirely covered with mosaics. Pop. 13,898.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 277
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