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Sayda (Sidon)

صيداء

A city on the salt sea named after a woman of pre-Islamic times, cheap, ringed by orchards and trees, where a fish is cured for use. 1

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Sayda is a city on the shore of the salt sea, cheap in price and surrounded by gardens and trees, according to al-Idrisi. It is attributed to a woman who lived in the pre-Islamic era. A kind of salted fish is made there. 2

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The Franks Take Beirut by the Sword and Sidon by Safe-Conduct, 504· Frankish expedition to Syria; Sidon refortified· The Franks besiege and demolish Qal'at al-Tur

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The Franks (Ifranja)· Bayrut (Beirut)· The Franks Take Beirut by the Sword and Sidon by Safe-Conduct, 504· Frankish expedition to Syria; Sidon refortified· The Franks besiege and demolish Qal'at al-Tur

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 371
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.371
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islam.museum contributors. “Sayda (Sidon)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/sayda/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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The Franks (Ifranja)

al-Mas'udi's Franks — fiercest of the Japhetic nations, united under one king whose capital in his day was Buwayra with some 150 towns; their early lands included Rhodes, Crete, Ifriqiya and Sicily. The king-list Bishop Urmazd of Jarunda sent al-Hakam in 328 runs from the Magian Qaludiya (converted by his wife Ghartala) through Qarla ibn Tabin down to Ludhriq ibn Qarla, reigning in 332.