Dasīna
دسينة
A civilised city with wide districts, many fields and buildings and cheap prices; the author gives four days east of Barsaklāfa 1.
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Dasina: a civilised city of wide districts, rich in farming and building, with cheap prices. al-Idrisi reports that it lies four days east of Barsaklafa. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 897
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.897
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