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| | A visit to Manah and Fiqain |
 | | As he crossed the flat open fields of Manah (or ‘Minna’ as he spells it), he was entranced by lofty almond, citron, and orange-trees, yielding a delicious fragrance on either hand, and ‘exclamations of astonishment and admiration’ were drawn from him. |
 | | Welisted writes that Manah ‘is an old town, said to have been erected at the period of Nushirvan’s invasion [the Sasanid King Khusrau Anushirwan, 531—578 A.D.]; but it bears, in common with the others, no indications of antiquity: its houses are lofty, but do not differ from those I have described at Semmed and Ibrah. |
 | | Manah, for example, was intact in 1997 but heavy rain wreaked havoc a year later. |
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