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Yahya Ibn Khaldun; Bughyat al-ruwwad; (Chronicle of Tlemcen) (d1378) (Maghrib)

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Taken from: Baghiyyat al-rivad fi akhbar al-moulouk min Bani ʿAbd al-Wad. Première partie Auteur :  Ibn Khaldoun (Abou Zakaria Yahya)

Brother of the well-known writer Ibn Khaldun.

 

In this work two world maps with Africa ending just North of the Horn of Africa. Showing the Nile up to Nubia, and lake Chad as a branch of the Nile, and in the other map as an independent system.