Lake Basafriya
بحيرة الباسفرية
A lake with a monastery of the Basafriyya on it, salt water and abundant fish; reeds and esparto grass around its edges are used by the local people. 1
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- Persia & Central Asia
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Lake al-Basafriya: a lake with a monastery of the Basafriyyun on it. Its water is salt, its fish are plentiful, and around its shores grow reeds and esparto grass, which the people of those districts make use of. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 424
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.424
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