Tashmis
تشمس
A great town once full of markets and profit, on the Safdad river about a mile from the sea; wars wore it away and only remains survive. Two days from Tangier. 1
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Tashmis is a large city which once had markets and benefits, on the river Sufdad, and between it and the sea there is about a mile. Al-Idrisi mentions that strife destroyed it, and remains of it survived. It lies two days from Tangier. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 530
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.530
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