al-Lāniya
اللانية
An ancient city from which the Alans take their name; the author gives twenty-four miles from Istabriyya 1.
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Alaniya: an old city, after which the Alans, a people, were named. al-Idrisi reports that it lies twenty-four miles from Istabriya. 1
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 915
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