al-Manṣūra - المنصورة
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“[A] town in Lower Egypt near Damietta (Dimyāṭ [q.v.]), and chief place of the mudīriyyat al-Daḳahliyya . The town was founded in 616/1219 by the Ayyūbid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil [q.v.] as a fortified camp against the Crusaders, who had conquered Dimyāṭ in S̲h̲aʿbān 616/November 1219.” 2
Names
- المنصورة1
- al-Manṣūra
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 31.03637° Long. 31.38069°3
Descriptions
“فالامصار سمرقند ايرانشهر شهرستان اردبيل همذان الاهواز شيراز السيرجان المنصورة زبيد مكة بغداد الموصل دمشق الفسطاط القيروان قرطبة” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 47.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/360761," GeoNames
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- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
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