Markata
مركطة
A small, settled town thirty stages from Balaq. Its people live on barley, and merchants come to it from Zalagh on the Red Sea. 1
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- East Africa & Swahili coast
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Overview
Markata is a small city thirty stages from Balaq, well populated and civilised. It has barley, on which its people live, and merchants enter it from the city of Zaligh on the Red Sea. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 41
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.41
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