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Ajdabiyya

أجدابية

A town on a level rocky plain, now reduced to two palaces in the desert; it has no running water and no plants around it, and lies six stages from Barqa. 1

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Overview

Ajdabiya: a town on level stony ground in the lands of the Maghrib. Al-Idrisi describes it as having kept only two castles in the desert, with no running water in it or around it. 1

Location

According to al-Idrisi, it lies six stages from Barqa. 1

An additional source is needed: its coordinates and its founding date are not given here.

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 311
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