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Jarta

جرتة

A small, civilised city with markets and buildings on the coast; the author gives one hundred miles from the island's river mouth 1.

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Jartah is a small, civilised town on the coast, with markets and buildings. Al-Idrisi says it lies a hundred miles from the mouth of the island. 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. 950
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.950
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islam.museum contributors. “Jarta”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/jartah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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