Batsawa
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A large, populous city with wide quarters, markets, crafts, running water and steady harvests; the author gives one hundred miles from Bansa 1.
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Batsawa: a large, populous city with spacious monasteries, with markets, crafts, running water and steady produce. The author reports that it lies one hundred miles from Bansa. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 875
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.875
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islam.museum contributors. “Batsawa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/batsawa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.