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Marsa al-Kharaz

مرسى الخرز

A small town with a strong wall, whose people live by coral fishing; its coral beds supply the coral that is carried to every land, and merchants come from all regions. 1

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Marsa al-Kharaz, the Harbour of Beads, is a small city with a strong wall. Its people live by catching coral, which is carried from it to all lands, and merchants from every country come to it, according to al-Idrisi. 2

Al-Maqdisi mentions that it is a city on an island which can be entered from one point only, that coral is extracted from its sea, and that there is no other source of coral. 3

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 290
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.290
  3. Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim of al-Muqaddasi , p.181
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