Hastīnkish
هستينكش
A large, populous, busy city with markets, workers and merchants; the author gives fifty miles along the coast from Sharham 1.
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Hastinkish is a large, populous, flourishing town with markets, workers and merchants. Al-Idrisi says it lies fifty miles from Sharham on the coast. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 945
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.945
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