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Sukh

سوخ

A town set apart with sixty villages in a single district; mercury is extracted from it. 1

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Sukh is a city unique in itself, with sixty villages in one district. Al-Idrisi mentions that mercury is extracted from it. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 508
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.508
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islam.museum contributors. “Sukh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sukh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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