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Qāwun

قاون

A large, populous city on the Danube with markets and crafts; the author gives one hundred miles from Aqra 1.

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Qawun is a large, populous city on the river Danu, with markets and crafts. Al-Idrisi mentions that it lies a hundred miles from Aqra. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 885
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.885
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islam.museum contributors. “Qāwun”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qawun/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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