Aoudaghost - اودغشت

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(or Awdag̲h̲os̲h̲t) African town, now no longer extant. According to al-Bakrī, it was situated between the country of the Blacks and Sid̲j̲ilmāssa, at about 51 days’ march from this oasis and 15 from G̲h̲āna. Barth thinks that it must have been situated between long. 10°-11° W. and lat. 18°-19° N., not far from Ḳṣār and Barka, that is to say to the South-West of the post of Tid̲j̲ikja in French Mauritania.2

Names

  • أودغست
  • اودغشت1
  • Aoudaghost
  • Awdaghost

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 17.4235° Long. -10.406°3

Descriptions

فاما مملكة الاسلام فان شرقيها ارض الهند وبحر فارس وغربيها مملكة السودان السكان على البحر المحيط المتصلين ببرارى أودغشت وصحاريها تجاه أوليل وشماليها بلاد الروم وما يتصل بها من الارض واللان والران والسرير والخزر والروس وبلغار والصقالبة وطائفه من الترك ومن شماليها مملكة الصين وما اتصل بها من بلد الاتراك وجنوبيها بحر فارس1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 10.
  • 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://www.geonames.org/2381516/aoudaghost.html," GeoNames

How to Cite This Entry

Aoudaghost - اودغشت ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5174.

Bibliography:

Aoudaghost - اودغشت .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5174.

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Entry Title: Aoudaghost - اودغشت

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  • Haya Al Thani, general editor, Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
  • Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine, and Mario Kozah, editors, The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer
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Additional Credit:

  • 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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