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Qurnat (Corinth)

قورنت

A large populated city on a strait, thirty miles from the narrows that lie between them; an island lies off it joined to the mainland. 1

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Qurnat is a large, populous city on a strait of the sea. Al-Idrisi mentions that the distance between it and a strait is thirty miles, and that an island there is joined to the mainland. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 637
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.637
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