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Ghaghan

غاغان

A city on the lake named after it, with a workshop for silk garments; Turkish merchants buy much there; six stages from Qarantiyya. 1

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Ghaghan is a city on a lake that bears its name. It has a workshop for making silk garments, and Turkish merchants come from it with much merchandise. It lies six stages from Qarantiya, according to al-Idrisi. 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. 708
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.708
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islam.museum contributors. “Ghaghan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ghaghan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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