Batn Marr
بطن مر
A place on the road from Mecca, about sixteen miles out, with a spring in a sandy watercourse and a few palms where Bedouin camp. 1
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Batn Marr: a place on the road from Mecca to al-Juhfa, about sixteen miles from Mecca. In it is a water spring in a sandy channel, and around it are small palm groves, to which a people of the Arabs resort. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 141
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.141
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