Bunjhir
بنجهير
A town on a rugged mountain, one day from Jarbaniya, whose people work the mines and smelt the ores; al-Idrisi calls its people unruly. 1
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Bunjhir: a city on a rugged mountain, a day's journey from Jarbaba. Its people work at extracting metals and smelting them. al-Idrisi says that its people are wicked. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 485
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.485
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