Rūshiyya
روشية
A city on a great river, whose people the author describes as always ready for war; he gives twenty-seven miles from Maṭraḫā 1.
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Rushiya is a city on a great river. Al-Idrisi mentions that its people are people of constant war, and that it lies twenty-seven miles from Matrakha. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 916
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.916
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