Tarfa
ترفة
An estate-village with palaces some distance from the main Nile, populated and with sugar-cane fields. Sugar and fanid are produced there in quantities that the author says would supply most of Egypt. 1
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Tarfa is an estate and palaces far from the main Nile, populous with people. It has sugar cane farms, from which sugar and fanid are made. Al-Idrisi mentions that it suffices most of the houses of Egypt. It is close to Samasta and to the Nile. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 131
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.131
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