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Basta (Baza)

بسطة

A populous, inhabited city with strong walls, a clean market, trade and crafts of many kinds; thirty miles from Wadi Ash. 1

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Basta: a populous, well-settled city with strong walls and a clean market, according to al-Idrisi. It has trade and workers in various crafts, and it lies thirty miles from Wadi Ash. 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. 568
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.568
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