Orleans
أرليانش
A populated, civilised city with standing houses, farms and crops on a river; seventy miles from Tours, one of the cities of France in al-Idrisi's account. 1
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Arliyansh, which is Orléans, is a city on a river. Al-Idrisi mentions that it is among the cities of France: populous and civilised, with houses, farms and crops. It lies seventy miles from Tarash. 1
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 862
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islam.museum contributors. “Orleans”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/orleans/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.