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Jarma

جرمة

A city in Fezzan. The author gives about twenty-five stages from it to Awdaghast. Its water comes from wells, and its people grow millet and barley. It stands near Tasawa 1, 2.

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Jarma is a town in the land of Fezzan. Al-Idrisi says the road from it to Awdaghast is about twenty-five stages, that its water comes from wells, and that its people grow maize and barley. 3 4

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 108
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 112
  3. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.108
  4. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.112
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