Dhankan
ضنكان
A town two light stages from Hulay. Al-Idrisi says its people rarely leave it, and that their wealth, farmland and produce are modest. 1
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A town two light stages from Hili. al-Idrisi describes its people as living in it and hardly ever leaving it, and says that their wealth and estates are few, and its fruits are few. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 138
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.138
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