Tanuma
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A populated island with fresh water, rice and coconuts, and a pearl-diving ground. Oud and camphor grow there. Five days from Qumar 1.
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Tanuma is a populous island with fresh water, rice, coconuts and a pearl bed, and aloes-wood and camphor grow in it. It lies five days from the island of Qumar, according to al-Idrisi. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 82-83
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.82
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