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Ashkāla

أشكالة

A small, civilised town in the land of the Alans, close to the sea; the author gives its distance from Ashkshiya 1.

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Ashkala: a small, civilised town in the land of al-Lanniya, near the sea, according to al-Idrisi, who mentions its distance from Ashkshiya. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 915
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.915
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islam.museum contributors. “Ashkāla”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ashkala/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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