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Suqmāqiya

سقماقية

A city on a mountain top with farms and resources, run by its elders and chiefs, which the author places east of the Foul Land 1.

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Suqmaqiya is a city on top of a mountain, with farms and amenities, and its affairs are managed by its shaykhs and chiefs. Al-Idrisi mentions that it lies east of the stinking land. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 930
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.930
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