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Rughusa (Ragusa)

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A fine, populous, inhabited city of Slavs who are raiders with ships; the last Slav land toward the west, thirty miles from Shighnu. 1

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Rughusa is a fine, populous, inhabited city, whose people are Slavs (saqaliba). Al-Idrisi describes them as people of raids and ships. In his account it is the last land of the Slavs on the western side, and it lies thirty miles from Shi'ghnu. 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. 769
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.769
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