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Lorca

لورقة

A fortified city on a mountain, with markets and a lower suburb walled below it, and with yellow earth and ochre deposits; the author gives its distance from Murcia as forty miles. 1

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Overview

Lorca is a fortified town on the back of a mountain, with markets, and with a suburb at its foot enclosed by a wall. 2

What al-Idrisi reports

Al-Idrisi says that in it are minerals of yellow earth and ochre, and he puts forty miles between it and Murcia. 2

A note

The page numbers in this entry are taken from the scanned-image index and not from the printed edition's pagination, and they need checking.

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 561
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.561
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islam.museum contributors. “Lorca”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/lorca/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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