Samasta
سمسطا
An estate-village about two miles from the main Nile, populated and with sugar-cane fields producing sugar and fanid. Along with Tarfa, the author counts it among the inhabited estates of Egypt. 1
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Samasta is an estate with palaces about two miles from the main Nile, populous with people, according to al-Idrisi. It has sugar cane farms, from which sugar and fanid are made. He counts it together with Tarfa among the inhabited estates of Egypt. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 131
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.131
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