Shūzās
شوزاص
A large, populous city with fine markets, settled houses and many vineyards and trees; the author gives eighty miles from Sīkla 1.
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Shuzas is a large, populous city; its markets are fine, and its vines and trees are abundant, according to al-Idrisi. He mentions that it lies eighty miles from Sikla. 2
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- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 879
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.879
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