Sharshāl - شرشال
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“[C]onventional French form Cherchell, a town of Algeria, the chef-lieu of an arrondissement in the department of al-Aṣnām (formerly Orléansville). It is situated on the edge of the Miliana massif, 95 km/60 miles to the west of Algiers, in long. 2° 29′ E., lat. 36° 37′ N.” 2
Names
- شرشال1
- Cherchell
- Sharshāl
Place Type
settlement
Descriptions
“وشرشال مدينة قديمة ازلية قد خربت وفيها مرسى وفيها آثار قديمة واصنام من حجارة ومبان عظيمة، ومنها الى برشك مدينة كان عليها سور” 1
See Also
Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 52.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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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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