Astur
أسطور
A populous town of Turks with wide plains, wheat and rice, iron mines, on the Ghamash river; its people are the bravest Turks; six stages from Banjar. 1
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Astur: a city full of Turks, with a spread-out carpet of land, having wheat, rice and iron mines, according to al-Idrisi. It lies on the river Ghamash, and he describes its people as the most courageous and valiant of the Turks. It lies six stages from Banjar. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 716
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.716
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