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Laqant (Alicante)

لقنت

A small populated town with a market and mosque, from which esparto grass is carried to all the lands of the sea; a strong high fortress crowns the mountain above it. 1

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Laqant (Alicante) is a small, populous town with a market and a mosque. Esparto grass is carried from it to all the lands of the sea, according to al-Idrisi. 2

On it is a fine, lofty, impregnable fortress on the top of a mountain. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 558
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.558
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