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Aqra

أقرة

A city on one of two rivers rising in the land of Bawāmiya; the author gives forty miles from Baṭash 1.

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Aqra: a city on one of two rivers that come out of the land of Bu'amiyya. al-Idrisi reports that it lies forty miles from Batash. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 884
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.884
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