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Atrasa

أطراسا

A city on the Ganges, one of the frontier towns of the Qanauj kingdom, five stages from Niyast. 1

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Atrasa: a city on the river Ganges (al-Ghanj), and one of the frontier posts of Qanuj, according to al-Idrisi. It borders other cities, and lies five stages from Niyast. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 194
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.194
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islam.museum contributors. “Atrasa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/atrasa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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