Balghrāta
بلغراتة
A fine, important, populous city with markets, crafts and trade, rich in grain; the author gives seventy miles north of Balāḥ 1.
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Bulghrata: a fine, populous city with markets, crafts and trade, rich in grain. al-Idrisi reports that it lies seventy miles north of Balah. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 883
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.883
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