title: Cities of Crimea in the Works of Arab Geographers of the 12th — 14th Centuries
abstract: The paper is devoted to a comparative analysis of information about the cities of the Crimean peninsula in the works of Arab geographers of the 12th — 14th centuries (al-Idrīsī, Ibn Sa‛īd al-Maghribī and Abū al-Fidā’. Despite the continuity of the works of these authors — both in general and in relation to information about the Crimean cities — each of them used his own sources to describe the Crimea, which reflected the main directions of the trade routes passing through the peninsula. The anal
journal: Istoriya