Zāqa

زاقة

A city in the land of the Rus; the author gives one hundred and eighty miles to Turūbī 1.

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Zaqa is a city in the land of Russia, as al-Idrisi mentions. By his account, Turubi lies a hundred and eighty miles from it. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 903
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.903
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islam.museum contributors. “Zāqa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/zaqa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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