Qayyarah

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Region: Levant & Iraq
Identifiers: GeoNames
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Qayyara is a town on the river Tigris, south of Mosul. Ibn Battuta mentioned it on his journey. ¹

The coordinates come from GeoNames, for a modern town of the same name. Matching them to the ancient site needs an additional source.

Sources

Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958

GeoNames gazetteer

Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Qayyarah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/qayyara/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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