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Region: Anatolia
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A town on the Tigris, which today lies at the border between northern Iraq and southern Turkey, and is known as Cizre. Ibn Battuta mentions it as "Jazirat Ibn Umar". ¹ ²

The coordinates are taken from the GeoNames gazetteer, with an approximate precision for the place. ²

Sources

Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
GeoNames gazetteer

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islam.museum contributors. “Cizre”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/jazirat-ibn-umar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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