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Alma

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A large, civilised city with busy markets, sixty miles south of Bazla, and one of the cities of the region of Ṣawāba 1 2.

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Alma: a large, civilised city with flourishing markets, lying sixty miles south of Bazla. The author reports that it is one of the cities of Sawaba. 1 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 874
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 875
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