Qafiz
قافز
A palace in the middle of a plain with a lake about half a mile long to its east, four miles from the sea, where the Rawaha tribes live. 1
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Qafiz is a palace in the middle of a plain (wata'), and to its east is a lake about half a mile long. Al-Idrisi mentions that it lies four miles from the sea, and that there are the tribes of Ruwaha in it. 1
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 315
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