Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

Tashmis

تشمس

A great town once full of markets and profit, on the Safdad river about a mile from the sea; wars wore it away and only remains survive. Two days from Tangier. 1

Depth

At a glance

Region
Maghreb
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Overview

Tashmis is a large city which once had markets and benefits, on the river Sufdad, and between it and the sea there is about a mile. Al-Idrisi mentions that strife destroyed it, and remains of it survived. It lies two days from Tangier. 2

Sources

  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 530
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.530
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Tashmis”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/tashmis/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Place

Cities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time.