Bansa
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A large, populous, fertile and fortified city with abundant crops; the author says its people are known for bravery in war and that it was the seat of the realm of the Germans 1.
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Bansa: a large, populous, fertile and fortified city with much cultivation, and its people are a people of courage in wars, according to al-Idrisi. In his account it is the seat of the kingdom of the Lamaniyya. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 874
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.874
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