Jarta
جرتة
A small, civilised city with markets and buildings on the coast; the author gives one hundred miles from the island's river mouth 1.
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Jartah is a small, civilised town on the coast, with markets and buildings. Al-Idrisi says it lies a hundred miles from the mouth of the island. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 950
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.950
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