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Hastīnkish

هستينكش

A large, populous, busy city with markets, workers and merchants; the author gives fifty miles along the coast from Sharham 1.

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Hastinkish is a large, populous, flourishing town with markets, workers and merchants. Al-Idrisi says it lies fifty miles from Sharham on the coast. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 945
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.945
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