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share, and that largely survived into the modern period. The ports, with their
cosmopolitanism, their commerce-based prosperity, but also their tensions and
sometimes violence, were the mirrors and the symbols of this new multicultural
Mediterranean. This image is also one of the most lasting legacies of the Middle
Ages to this day, strongly contributing to modern representations of the
Mediterranean: simultaneously a gap and a bridge between Islam and Christendom,
the space of the merchant and the pirate, of the Crusader and the ambassador.
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