Atil - اتل
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“Atil, or Itil, sometimes Atil (Itil)-Khazarān, also Ḵh̲azarān Atil, the Ḵh̲azar capital, a double town on the lower Volga, itself called Atil, Itil [q.v.] in the early mediaeval period. The exact site is unknown.” 2
Names
- اتل1
- Atil
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“ومن اتل الى سمندر ايام [...] ومن اتل الى بجناك مسيرة شهر ومن اتل الى بلغار على طريق المفازة نحو شهر وفي الماء شهران في صعود والانحدار نحو 20 يوما” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 287.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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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
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