al-Dawraq - الدورق
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“[F]ormerly a town in south-western K̲h̲ūzistān, was also called Dawraḳ al-Furs, ‘Dawraḳ of the Persians’ and sometimes al-Madīna, ‘the Town’. The original Persian name was Darāk.” 2
Names
- الدورق1
- al-Dawraq
- al-Falāḥiyya
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“الدورق كورة ومدينة وقرية بخوزستان” 1
A village (qarya) in Khūzistān.
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Works Cited
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- 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 27.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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