Geography of the city of Sfax and its suburbs
(جغرافية مدينة صفاقس وضواحيها)

Name: Geography of the city of Sfax and its suburbs
Author: Rice, Rasheed

Title	Geography of the city of Sfax and its suburbs
Title Original	جغرافية مدينة صفاقس وضواحيها
Author	Rice, Rasheed
Author Original	رايس رشيد
Publication Date:	1274
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	26
Physical Dimensions	250 x 190 مم
Library:	National Library of Tunisia
Record ID	5587844
Library Location	A-MSS-261
Date	1274
Notes	It was drawn up at the request of the Prince of Princes, Sayyed Rashid, head of the coastal forces, in the year 1274 AH/1857 AD. It includes detailed maps of the cities and villages connected to Sfax, Djerba, and Kerkennah, in which the sea coast and its slopes are drawn in blue, and the urban blocs are drawn according to their distribution in pink, and numbers are attached to each other to be referred to on the page opposite each map on the written data that usually begins with a mention of the Khutba Mosque, and the mosques. And the shrines of the saints, and the corners, and the domes, and the mention of the “homes” of the living, and the number of houses in them, and the boundaries of urbanization, such as marshes, forests, or roads. This only copy is missing a map of the city of Sfax, at the end of which is the trace of General Rashid’s ownership line, in his hand. (This copy was presented in the manuscript exhibition)
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Geography of the city of Sfax and its suburbs

(جغرافية مدينة صفاقس وضواحيها)

Author Rice, Rasheed

Author Original رايس رشيد

Publication Date 1274

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 26

Physical Dimensions 250 x 190 مم

Library National Library of Tunisia

Record ID 5587844

Library Location A-MSS-261

Date 1274

Notes It was drawn up at the request of the Prince of Princes, Sayyed Rashid, head of the coastal forces, in the year 1274 AH/1857 AD. It includes detailed maps of the cities and villages connected to Sfax, Djerba, and Kerkennah, in which the sea coast and its slopes are drawn in blue, and the urban blocs are drawn according to their distribution in pink, and numbers are attached to each other to be referred to on the page opposite each map on the written data that usually begins with a mention of the Khutba Mosque, and the mosques. And the shrines of the saints, and the corners, and the domes, and the mention of the “homes” of the living, and the number of houses in them, and the boundaries of urbanization, such as marshes, forests, or roads. This only copy is missing a map of the city of Sfax, at the end of which is the trace of General Rashid’s ownership line, in his hand. (This copy was presented in the manuscript exhibition)

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