Tarnit (Taranto)
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A large, ancient and fine city with markets, merchants and travellers, from which ships take cargo; it has a harbour on its west side and a lagoon fed by the sea twice a day. 1
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Taranto is an ancient, fine, large city, with markets, merchants and travellers, and ships are loaded from it. On its west is a harbour, and surrounding it is a lake which the sea enters twice a day. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 630
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.630
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