Nul
نول
A large, populated city on the edge of the desert; it is the only town where the people of the region shelter, and the Lamtuna and Lamta tribes live near it. 1
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Nul is a large, populous city at the edge of the desert, according to al-Idrisi. The people of that land have no other city to shelter in, and in it are the tribes of Lamtuna and Lamta. From it to the sea is thirteen stages. 1
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 224
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