Samna
سمنة
A town in Tajuwi land on the Nubian border. Travellers report that a governor sent by the Nubian king burned and destroyed it and scattered its people, leaving it in ruins 1.
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Samna is a city in the land of al-Tajawin on the borders of Nubia. Al-Idrisi relates from some travellers that an emir acting on behalf of the king of Nubia burned and demolished it and scattered its people, so it became a ruin. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 30
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.30
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