al-Qal
القل
A populated village that was a city in earlier times, now a harbour with buildings and mountains around it, seventy miles from Jijel. 1
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al-Qal: a populous village which in former times was a city, according to al-Idrisi. In his time it was a harbour, with buildings enclosed by mountains, and it lies seventy miles from Jijil. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 269
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.269
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