al-Shaqqa (Sciacca)
الشاقة
A town on the sea coast with wide open ground, which in al-Idrisi's time was the mother of the districts, visited by travellers from Ifriqiya and the island's edges. 1
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Al-Shaqqa is a town on the sea shore, overlooking and spacious in its expanse. Al-Idrisi says that in his time it was the mother of the regions to which people go, and travellers come to it from Ifriqiya and the edges of al-Jazira. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 600
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.600
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