Shantmariyya (Santa Maria)
شنت مارية
A medium-sized town on the Atlantic coast with a harbour the tide enters, where ships come and go; about twenty-eight miles from Silves. 1
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Shant Mariyya is a city of middling size on the coast of the Great Sea, according to al-Idrisi. It has a harbour which the tide enters, and ships arrive at and depart from it. It lies twenty-eight miles from Shalab. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 543
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.543
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