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Ghūrān

غوران

A small town where the ruler of a Turkish group lives; the author gives four stages over high mountains from Dandara 1.

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Ghuran is a small town where a king of a kind of Turks lives. Al-Idrisi says it lies four stages from Dandara, on high mountains. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 927
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.927
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islam.museum contributors. “Ghūrān”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ghuran/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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