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Ashkshiya

أشكشية

A fine city in the land of the Alans and one of its ports; the author gives one hundred and fifty miles from a river site 1.

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Ashkshiya: a fine town in the land of al-Lanniya, and one of its frontier posts. al-Idrisi reports that it lies one hundred and fifty miles from the site of the river. 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. 915
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.915
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