Nantes
نانطس
A large, populous, inhabited city with fields and outlying land; a strong and pleasing city from which merchants fit out, in a bay that opens from the sea; about fifty miles from Belfer. 1
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Nantes is a large, populous, inhabited city with farmland and outlying territory. It is fortified and fine, and merchants equip themselves from it. Al-Idrisi mentions that it lies at the bottom of a gulf that extends out from the sea, and about fifty miles from Balfir. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 856
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.856
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