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Qarqana

قرقنة

An island with no town; its people live in reed huts and grow vines, cumin and anise. King Roger took it in the year 548 AH. 1

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An island with no city; its people live in huts (akhsas). It has vineyards, and crops of cumin and anise. 2

Al-Idrisi mentions that King Roger conquered it in the year 548 AH. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 304
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.304
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