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Book of Roads and Kingdoms (al-Bakrī)

Index Book of Roads and Kingdoms (al-Bakrī)

Book of Roads and Kingdoms or Book of Highways and Kingdoms (rtl, Kitāb al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik) is the name of an eleventh-century geography text by Abu Abdullah al-Bakri. [1]

10 relations: Al-Andalus, Al-Bakri, Atlantic Ocean, Book of Roads and Kingdoms (ibn Khordadbeh), Córdoba, Spain, Central Africa, Geography, Ibn Khordadbeh, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Sahara.

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus (الأنْدَلُس, trans.; al-Ándalus; al-Ândalus; al-Àndalus; Berber: Andalus), also known as Muslim Spain, Muslim Iberia, or Islamic Iberia, was a medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal.

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Al-Bakri

, or simply Al-Bakri (أبو عبيد عبدالله بن عبد العزيز البكري) (c. 1014–1094) was an Andalusian Arab historian and the greatest geographer of the Muslim West.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Book of Roads and Kingdoms (ibn Khordadbeh)

The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik w’al- Mamālik) is a 9th-century geography text by the Persian geographer Ibn Khordadbeh.

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Córdoba, Spain

Córdoba, also called Cordoba or Cordova in English, is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.

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Central Africa

Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.

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Geography

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.

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Ibn Khordadbeh

Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خردادبه) (c. 820 – 912 CE), better known as Ibn Khordadbeh or Ibn Khurradadhbih, was the author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.

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Ibrahim ibn Yaqub

Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (961–62; sometimes Ibrâhîm ibn Ya`qûb al-Tartushi or al-Ṭurṭûshî; also Abraham ben Jacob) was a 10th-century Hispano-Arabic, Sephardi Jewish traveller, probably a merchant, who may have also engaged in diplomacy and espionage.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Redirects here:

Book of Highways and of Kingdoms (al-Bakri), Book of Roads and Kingdoms (al-Bakri).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Roads_and_Kingdoms_(al-Bakrī)

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