Comentarii asupra unor informaţii din Geografia şi Harta lui al-Idrīs
Comments on some pieces of information from the Geography and the Map of al-Idrīsī

Summary/Abstract: The study discusses the previous Romanian contributions to the problem,many of them flawed by the perpetuation of some mistaken identifications, such as Disinafor Vicina. The present commentary is based on the latest translation of the source. The conclusion is that no place was recorded by the geographical treatise of al-Idrīsī in Dobrudja, except Dristra. Armkastrou was certainly somewhere on the Bulgarian shore, maybe at Kaliakra, not Enisala, as even up to recently it was maintained. Not even Chilia could be identified with Aqiliyya (which could be more probable Cetatea Albă). This ignorance about what we call now Dobrudja meant that the region was then out of the journeys made by the merchants, the informers of al-Idrīsī. In that time, the region was gravely depopulated and thus with no interest for trade. In the last part of the study are discussed the data about Cenad, Timişoara and another place which could be identified with Alba Iulia.

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