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Tarnit (Taranto)

طارنت

A large, ancient and fine city with markets, merchants and travellers, from which ships take cargo; it has a harbour on its west side and a lagoon fed by the sea twice a day. 1

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al-Andalus & Europe
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Taranto is an ancient, fine, large city, with markets, merchants and travellers, and ships are loaded from it. On its west is a harbour, and surrounding it is a lake which the sea enters twice a day. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 630
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.630
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