Jayyan (Jaén)
جيان
A city of low prices and plenty of meat and honey, where silkworms are raised; a great mosque and a strong citadel up the slope, linked to the mountain of Kur, twenty miles from Bayyasa. 1
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Jayyan is a town with low prices, abundant meat and honey, where silkworms are raised. It has a congregational mosque and a strong citadel with a way up to it, and Mount Kur joins it. It lies twenty miles from Bayyasa, according to al-Idrisi. 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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