Barfanṭū
برفنتو
A city at the foot of a gentle hill; the author gives thirty miles west of Batrānī, with a river flowing between them 1.
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Barfanto (Brindisi area): a city at the foot of a gentle mountain, according to al-Idrisi. He reports that it lies thirty miles west of Batarni, and that a river flows between the two. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 898
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.898
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