Daghuta
دغوطة
A town on a large creek whose people go unclothed and cover their hands when they meet traders. Gold is found there as elsewhere in the area. One passage from the Island of the Moon 1.
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Daghuta: a city on a great creek, according to al-Idrisi. He describes its people as naked, covering their hands when they meet merchants, and its women as veiled. Gold is there as it is in other places, and it lies one channel from the Island of the Moon. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 79
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.79
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