Qamula
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A village about five miles from Damamil, which the author says is as rich as a town, gathering every kind of produce. Citing a trusted informant of his time, he reports varieties of fruit there, including one of unusual size. 1
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Qamula is a village on the western bank of the Nile, five miles from Damamil. Al-Idrisi regards it as like a city in gathering every blessing, and mentions, on the authority of a trustworthy person of his time, that it produces kinds of fruit, among them a fruit of great size. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 129
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.129
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