Kawthariyya
كوثاربا
A small town east of al-Madain with mounds of ash, which al-Idrisi says, from the reports of the learned, is the ash of a fire lit there. 1
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Kawthariyya is a small town east of al-Mada'in, with hills of ash in it. Al-Idrisi reports from the people of the accounts that it is the ash of a fire that was lit there. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 671
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.671
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