Zamin

زامين

A populous, strong town with a wall, twenty-seven miles from Samarqand. 1

Depth

At a glance

Region
Persia & Central Asia
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Overview

Zamin is a city which al-Idrisi describes as populous in its region and full of people, fortified and with a wall. It lies twenty-seven miles from Samarqand. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 505
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.505
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Zamin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/zamin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Place

Cities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time.