Farawa
فراوة
A civilised town, small in size compared with its neighbours; a frontier fortress of Khurasan at the desert's edge, watered by a spring inside the town. 1
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Overview
Farawa is a civilised town, though small compared with others. It is a frontier post for Khurasan at the edge of the desert, and it has water from a spring in the heart of the town. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 693
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.693
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