al-Qulzum - القلزم
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“[A]n ancient town and seaport on the Red Sea (A. Baḥr al-Ḳulzum [q.v.], Baḥr al-Hind or Baḥr al-Ḥabas̲h̲a), now administratively in the province (muḥāfaẓa) of al-Suways.” 2
Names
- القلزم1
- al-Qulzum
- Clysma
- Clysmo
- Klysma
- Ovilia
- Qulzum
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 29.958988° Long. 32.567728°3
Descriptions
“وشكلت عطفه عليه لان بحر فارس يعطف من جزيرة مسقط مغربا الى مكة والى القلزم عن خمسين فرسخا من عمان ويدعى ذلك راس الجمجمة” 1
See Also
Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 7.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727101," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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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
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
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