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Sīkla

سيكلة

A large city on low ground, with well-set quarters and busy markets, which the author places at the centre of the land of the Frisians, eighty miles west of Astrik 1.

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Siklah is a large city in a level depression of the land, fine in its regions, with continuous buildings and great markets, according to al-Idrisi. To him it is in the middle of the land of Ifriqiya, and it lies eighty miles west of Astarik. 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. 879
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.879
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