Istabriyya
إستبرية
A civilised, populous city with wide markets and well-laid streets; the author gives twenty miles along the coast from Ashkāla 1.
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Istabriya is a civilised, flourishing town with wide markets and well-made roads, according to al-Idrisi. He says it lies twenty miles from Ashkala on the coast. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 915
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.915
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