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Ṭanja - طنجة

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“[T]he name for the town of Tangier on the northern Moroccan shore of the Straits of Gibraltar.” A city along the North African cosastline located at the Strait of Gibraltar.3

Names

  • تنجة2
  • طنجة1
  • Tanger
  • Tangier
  • Ṭanja
  • Tanja
  • Tingi
  • Tingis

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 35.787924° Long. -5.810048°4

Descriptions

“ثم ذكرت المغرب ورسمته في وجهين وبدأت بذكر ما حاد منه ارض مصر الى المهدية والقيروان وما في براريها من المدن وان قلت واعقبتها بباقى صورته من القيروان والمهدية الى ارض طنجة وأزيلى” 1
“واما سطفورة فاقليم ايضا على البحر جليل له ثلاث مدائن فاقربهن الى تونس أنبلونة ثم تنجة ثم بنزرت وهى مدينة على البحر خصيبة اصغر من سوسة في ذاته وعامل هذه البلاد ينزل في بنزرت وبها ثمار كثيرة وانهار سطفورة واسعة غزيرة والارتفاع بها” 2
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 7.
  • 2 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 50.
  • 3 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
  • 4 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places

How to Cite This Entry

“Ṭanja - طنجة ” in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5492.

Bibliography:

“Ṭanja - طنجة .” 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/5492.

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Entry Title: Ṭanja - طنجة

Authorial and Editorial Responsibility:

  • 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
  • , entry contributor, “Ṭanja - طنجة ”

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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