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Mount Banbuwan

جبل بنبوان

A mountain east of Nughayra, tilting south. The author calls it one of the highest mountains on earth, bare and white-soiled, where only wormwood and saltwort grow 1.

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Mount Banbuwan: a mountain east of the city of Nughayra, slightly to the south. al-Idrisi reports that it is among the highest mountains on earth, with white soil, where nothing grows but wormwood and saltwort. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 106
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.106
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