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Qalūniya

قلونية

A large city on the western bank of the Rhine with settled outskirts and regular harvests; the author gives sixty miles from Mabānisa 1 2.

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Qalunia is a city on the western bank of the river Rin, large in extent, populous on its sides, with continuous crops. Al-Idrisi mentions that between it and Mubanisa there are sixty miles. 3 4

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 872
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 873
  3. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.872
  4. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.873
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islam.museum contributors. “Qalūniya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qalunia/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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