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Mount Tantana

جبل طنطنة

A mountain around which the Azqar pasture; springs and grazing lie at its foot. The author reports a good iron mine in it 1, 2.

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Mount Tantana is a mountain around the land of Wadan and Azqar. At its foot are springs and pastures, and in it is good iron ore, according to al-Idrisi. 3 4

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 113
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 116
  3. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.113
  4. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.116
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