As illustration only a worldmap from Ibn al Wardi
(Mandean text) (originated 2 century BC
added on through Islamic times)
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The SM is a compilation from various sources of astrological and divinatory content and arranged in two major parts. Generally speaking, Part I, in 20 chapters, presents a guide to astrological analysis of human beings, that is, their physical attributes, abilities and weaknesses, as well as the various activities undertaken by people (marriage, travel, etc.). Part II, is a separate collection, it is the older part, as it consists of omens of celestial, hemerological, and medical diagnostic content. It gives the place of the Zanj in the signs of the Zodiac.
Taken from: Lady Ethel Stefana Drower: The Book of the Zodiac.
Next the second region, that of Jupiter, comprises nine thousand districts and all of them are the abode of nomads, they call it Bidia (1). And the cities of that region to the eastern quarter are Zangaubarstan (Zanzibar), and there are other districts and towns, such as Saluq (8) and Sluq (8), Andima(9) and Andirima (9), Taswan (10) and Taran(11), Kamqan (12), Maian (13), Taiif (14), Mecca and Medinah, Damilan (15), and Sam (Sham=Syria), Morocco, and Samat.
To Sagittarius he gave Baghdad, Isfahan (central Iran), Dimsand, Gilan (2) as far as the frontier Sabur (3), and up to Saimara (4), Gilan (2) up to the border of the Armenian regions, Rus of the Yemen, Habas (=Ethiopia), Zins (=Zanj), Bidia (1), Madina…………
To Pisces he gave Tabaristan, Sihil, Gurgan (5), Zinistin (6), Barbar (=Berbera), the Jezira (7) to the borders of Malarud…..
(1) Bidia (should be Bedawin= Bedouin)
(2) Gilan: Province of Iran on the Caspian Sea.
(3) Sabur: Lorestan Province, Iran.
(4) Saimara: Iran but destroyed by the Mongols.
(5) Gurgan (Golestan Province, Iran).
(6) Zinistin (=the country of the Zanj).
(7) Jezira (Upper Mesopotamia).
(8) Saluq: in Yemen. Or Saluq and Sluq: Salukh or Salakh on the River Oxus? Or Saliiqia (Seleucia), the city on the opposite bank of the Tigris to Ctesiphon?
(9) Andalima, Andarma, Andarima, Andirima. It is difficult to identify this place. There was an Adhramah, or Adarmeh between Nisibin and Mosul. There was also an Artemita near Seleukia, and south of Aleppo there is a small place, now ruined, called Andarin, and a bishopric between Nisibin and Mosul was called Adarmeh. Andima is possibly another mis-spelling of the above, or a version of Andimisk, which according to Hubschmann was the ancient name of the city of Dizful.
(10) ? Ctesiphon?
(11) Turan is a historical region in Central Asia.
(12) Kamqan: maybe a mis-spelling of Karamqan, q.v. A fortress of Kamskb on the western Euphrates.
(13) A city between Zinjan and Tabriz. Mayin the capital of Ramjird is described by Mukaddisi as a populous city with fruitful lands.
(14)Taiff in Arabia.
(15) read Ramilan