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Feyyūm

a Pleiades name resource

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Feyyūm


Ottoman Turkish

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • sixteenth century of the common era (confident)

Pleiades

 

Feyyūm: A renowned ḳaṣaba (town) in the Ṣa‘īd vilāyet (Upper Egypt province), through which the Nehr-i Yūsuf ‘aleyhi’s-selām (River of Joseph, peace be upon him) flows. It is a rarity of the age with its baths, schools, and markets. [translation]