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Samangan

سمنجان

A town at the foot of a mountain from which silver is gathered, two stages from Taliqan. 1

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Samangan is a city at the foot of a mountain. Al-Idrisi mentions that the silver extracted from the minerals is collected there. It lies two stages from Taliqan. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 484
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.484
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islam.museum contributors. “Samangan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/samangan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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