"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎٢‎٢] (٣٨٨/٧٥)

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Shateif, is a considerable town, and well-inhabited,
between To.houth and Kiroucin. Ihe inhabitants are a
tribe of Berbers, and called Kencuncih. j4hdcillcil l has sub
dued them ; and Ahu-Abdallah, who was a servant of Jbdallah,
resides among them, and governs them.
O lj)vo Kirouan is the largest of all the towns. The tribes of
Magreb all resided there; and it was their chief place until the
decline of their government, when Abu-Abdallah came forth,
and conquered them ; since which time Abdallah dwelt at Kir-
ouan, until he built the town of Mohedicih on the sea-
coast, and removed to that place.
Zouileh is a town of middling size, with many territories
belonging to it: it is situated near the country of the Blacks.
This land of the Blacks is a very extensive region, but extremely
dry. In the mountains of it are to be found all the fruits which
the Mohammedan world produces ; but they do not eat of them ;
they have other fruits and natural productions for their food.
Their skins are of a finer and deeper blackness than that of any
other blacks, whither Habeshis, Abyssinians, or
Zingians, Ethiopians. And their country is more extensive than
that of any other nation of Blacks: it is situated on the coast of
the ocean to the south : to the north they have deserts which extend
towards the deserts of Egypt; from behind JFahh the desert