Lake Zarra
بحيرة زرة
A lake whose water spreads and shrinks with the seasons, with villages and farms along it, about nine miles long and rich in fish. 1
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- Persia & Central Asia
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Lake Zarra: its water spreads and shrinks according to the seasons, and it has villages and farms around it. It is about nine miles long and has plenty of fish, according to al-Idrisi. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 455
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.455
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islam.museum contributors. “Lake Zarra”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/buhayrat-zarra/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.