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Barna

برنة

A populous city on the sea, with many houses, vineyards and fields; the author gives eighty miles west to the place where the Rhine lies 1.

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Barna: a populous city on the sea, with many homes, vineyards and tilled land, according to al-Idrisi. He reports that it lies eighty miles west of the site of the river Rin. 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. 879
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.879
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