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Bugu River

نهر بوغو

A great river entered by boats and galleys, with towns and forts along it, flowing to the western sea; seventy miles from the Mount Miyur fort. 1

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The River Bugu is a great river which boats and warships enter, with cities and fortresses along it, and which empties into the Western Sea. Al-Idrisi mentions that its site lies seventy miles from the fortress of Mant Miyur. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 726
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.726
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