Burgish (Burgos)

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A walled city with its districts under it; water is plentiful and the farms continuous; a hundred miles from Anqlazima and forty from Shant Juan. 1

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Burgish: a walled city, and its districts are named after it. Its water is abundant and its farms are connected. al-Idrisi reports that it lies a hundred miles from Anqlazima, and forty miles from Shant Juan. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 732
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.732
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