Lake Jankan
بحيرة الجنكان
A salt lake about six miles long, with fisheries and livelihoods, settled around it, about six miles from Shiraz. 1
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- Persia & Central Asia
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Lake Jankan: a lake whose water is salt, six miles long, with fishing grounds and livelihoods on it, and buildings around it. It lies about six miles from Shiraz. 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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