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Liège

لياجة

A fine city on an island in the river, surrounded by water on every side, with adequate markets and crafts; the author gives one hundred miles from Māṣ 1.

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Liège is a fine town on an island in the river, which surrounds it on every side. It has enough markets and crafts, according to al-Idrisi. 2

Al-Idrisi says its distance from Mass is a hundred miles. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 868
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.868
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