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Bruges

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A medium-sized, civilised city with many amenities and low prices, fifteen miles west of Ghent 1, and thirty miles north of the coastal place Ṣanqala 1.

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Bruges: a medium-sized city with many facilities and cheap prices, joined to vineyards, crops and good produce. al-Idrisi reports that it lies fifteen miles west of Qanat, and thirty miles north of Sanqalla on the sea. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 871
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.871
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