al-Bayda (Fars)
البيضاء (فارس)
A large town with a wide district, named for the whiteness of its palaces; its people are well off and dress like the Iraqis; twenty-four miles from Sahak. 1
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Bayda (in Fars): a large city with a wide rustaq (district). It was named "the white" because of the whiteness of its palaces. Its people are well-to-do, and their dress is the dress of the Iraqis. It lies twenty-four miles from Sahik. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 432
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.432
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