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Awlil

أوليل

An island port off the coast with the best-known salt works in the Sudan lands. Ships load salt there and sail it to the Nile, from which it is carried to the whole region 1.

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Awlil: an island near the coast, with the famous salt-works, according to al-Idrisi. Salt is carried from it to the lands of the Sudan: ships come and load the salt, then sail with it to the Nile. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 17
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.17
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