Lake of Banzart
بحيرة بنزرت
A lake sixteen miles long; al-Idrisi says each month brings a kind of fish found in no other month, twelve kinds in all. 1
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Lake Banzart: a lake sixteen miles long. al-Idrisi reports that in it each month there is a kind of fish found nowhere else, and that there are twelve kinds of fish in it. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 289
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.289
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