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Rikka

ريكة

A town at the foot of the Atlas, near Aghmat, with good soil and plenty of plants; a modest river crosses the town and gardens surround it. 1

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Rikka is a city at the foot of the Darn mountain, near Aghmat, according to al-Idrisi. Its soil is good and its plants are abundant. A river, not large, cuts through the city, and gardens surround it. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 226
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.226
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