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Ann; Tavarix-I Ruz-I Jum’a (Descriptive Geography) (15^th century) Persia

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Taken from: Between the Danube and the Caucasus: A Collection of Papers Concerning the Oriental Sources on…Peter B. Golden

This geography is added to a mss (fol 570-587) of the Bodleian Fraser 131 (mss. of Bal'amis Persian rendering of al-Tabaris History).

Fol586v has as title: Zikr-I Bilad i Zanj va Idrak. (no translation is available of this section).

This section however is not about East Africa but Western Europe.

Zanj should be changed to : Franj (the Franks)