Al-Qasaba (in Kawar)
القصبة (في كوار)
A small, well-built city in the Kawar valley, surrounded by palms. Its people wear woollen cloths and drink from sweet wells, and travel widely for trade 1.
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al-Qasaba: a small town, well built, in the Wadi Kawar, surrounded by palm trees. al-Idrisi reports that its people wear wool cloths and garments, drink from sweet wells, and travel through the lands for trade. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 117
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.117
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