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The receding of the sea and the emergence of mountains and islands

نقصان البحر وظهور جبال وجزائر

c. 957 CE · 346 AH

In 346 the sea fell eighty cubits revealing mountains and islands no one knew or had heard of; that Dhu'l-Hijja word came of a great earthquake at Rayy and its environs killing many 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Persia & Central Asia
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940950960970 c.
Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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In 346 the sea receded eighty cubits, revealing mountains and islands no one knew or had heard of; and in Dhu'l-Hijja word came of a great earthquake at Rayy and its environs in which many people died 1.

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  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 670
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