Bakhwan
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A town on the bank of the Jaz river, from which most iron goods go out to the Turkish lands; it has fields and pastures for the Turks. 1
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Bakhwan: a city on the bank of the river Jaz, from which most iron goods go out to the land of the Turks. It has farms and pastures for the Turks. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 512
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.512
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