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Shiltish

شلطيش

A town on an island about a mile long, without a wall or enclosure, with a market and an ironworking trade that makes the anchors used by ships; it lies by the sea near Labla. 1

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Shiltish is a city on an island about a mile long, with no wall or enclosure, and it has a market. Iron and the anchors with which ships are moored are made there. It lies a cubit away from Labla, on the sea, according to al-Idrisi. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 542
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.542
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islam.museum contributors. “Shiltish”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/shiltish/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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