Kath

كثة

A populous, inhabited city with continuous buildings and standing markets, thirty miles west of Yazd. 1

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Kath is a populous, inhabited town with closely joined buildings. Markets and standing buildings are attached to it, and it lies thirty miles from Yazd, according to al-Idrisi. 2

An additional source is needed: the English summary in the data says "west" and the Arabic says "east".

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 430
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.430
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islam.museum contributors. “Kath”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/kath/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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