Jaen
جيان
A fine city rich in fertile land, honey and meat, with running springs beneath its wall and a strong citadel; the author says more than three thousand villages around it raise silkworms. 1
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Jaen is a fine town rich in fertility, honey and meat, according to al-Idrisi. It has running springs below its wall and a strong citadel. He says that around it are more than three thousand villages where silkworms are raised. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 568
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.568
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