Masqaṭ
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Masqaṭ; مسقط; Muscat; Musqaṭ
(lat. 23° 28′ N., long. 58° 36′ E.), Eng. Muscat, Fr.Mascate, a port on the Gulf of Oman and since the end of the 18th century notionally the capital of what came to be called the ¶ Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, since 1970 the Sultanate of Oman.
The capital and largest city in ʿUmān .
وشكلت عطفه عليه لان بحر فارس يعطف من جزيرة مسقط مغربا الى مكة والى القلزم عن خمسين فرسخا من عمان ويدعى ذلك راس الجمجمة
ثم ركبت البحر، فوصلت إلى مسقط (بفتح الميم)، وهي بلدة صغيرة بها السمك الكثير المعروف بقلب الماس
location: 23.6 58.55
location: Beth Qaṭraye
event: 0902/0914
Attestation of name مسقط in the Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa of Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah.
state: 0100–2017
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/2943
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/2943
identifier: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/284472645
identifier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscat,_Oman
identifier: https://dbpedia.org/resource/Muscat,_Oman
Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsa Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar Ibn Rustah 87
Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal 7
Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūta. Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār Ibn Baṭṭūta 661
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman