Mazar (Mazara)
مازر
A fine, lively and complete city with broad lanes, markets, wide inns, gardens and orchards, from which goods are shipped to every land; it lies on the sea. 1
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Mazar is a large, fine city with wide lanes, streets and busy markets, and wide inns and gardens. Goods are dispatched from it to all horizons. It lies on the sea, according to al-Idrisi. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 600
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.600
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