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Afli

أفلي

A city on a level plain with open spaces and connected buildings; high mountains lie to its north and the Danube runs behind it, and it has an iron industry 1.

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Afli: a town on open, level ground, with spacious places and connected buildings. Al-Idrisi says that high mountains lie to its north, that the river Dhanu runs behind it, and that it has an iron industry. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 901
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.901
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