Al-Qays
القيس
An old, well-built city on the west bank of the Nile, with sugar cane and many kinds of dates. It is about eighteen miles from Dahrut 1.
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al-Qays: an ancient, well-built town on the west bank of the Nile. al-Idrisi mentions in it sugar cane and kinds of dates, and says that it lies about eighteen miles from Dahrut. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 124
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.124
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