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Libya in the "Book of All Kingdoms"

Luchón
Tolometa/Ptolemais
Tripul/Tripoli

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Luchón

image by Eugene Ipavec, 16 December 2009

The 50th flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms is attributed to "Luchón", which is somewhere in coastal northeastern Africa, currently in either Egypt or Libya. This as depicted in the 2005 Spanish illustrated transcription, a yellow flag with a white crescent (with black lining visible) pointing to the hoist but not in the ogival default shape of this source: the flag is quadrangular with five round shallow indentations on the fly edge, and shows a black line where the said ogival shape would be in other flags.

The anonymous author of Book of All Kingdoms describes the flag thus: "E el rey d’ella á por señales una seña amarilla con una luna blanca atal." (= "And its king has for device a yellow ensign with a white moon like this".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 November 2007

This name is contemporary Spanish rendering of Lukk. The place is actually in Libya, between Tobruk and Egyptian border.
Source:
Apéndices. Viajes medievales, vol. I, p. 426
Madrid: Fundacio'n Jose' Antonio de Castro, 2005
ISBN 84-96452-11-5 (complete edition)
ISBN 84-96452-12-3 (vol. I)
Tomislav Todorovic, 17 May 2017

Tolometa/Ptolemais

image by Eugene Ipavec, 11 December 2009

The 51st flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms [f0fXX] is attributed to Tolometa, currently Ptolemais / Tolmeitha, in Libya.

This as depicted in the 2005 Spanish illustrated transcription: a spear with a yellow cravat with black pattern attached to its point and possibly a white flag in the ogival default shape of this source.

The anonymous author describes the flag thusly: «El rey dende á por señales unos tovajones amarillos encima de una lança e a estos.» (And the king thereof has for device some yellow drapes up on a spears which are these (?).) The image includes an ogival flag outline, but solid, not dashed, and a yellow cravat.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 22 November 2007

Tripul/Tripoli

image by Eugene Ipavec, 24 November 2007

The 52nd flag mentioned and illustrated in the Book of All Kingdoms [f0fXX] is attributed to Tripul, which is Tripoli, in Libya.

This as depicted in the 2005 Spanish illustrated transcription [f0f05], a white flag with a black tree (with some kind of yellow partial outline or shade, though the text says green) between two red keys, upright and turned inwards, the flag in the ogival default shape of this source.

The anonymous author describes the flag thusly: «El rey d'ella á por señales un pendón blanco con una palma verde e dos llaves bermejas atales.» (Its king has for device a white pendon with a green palm and two red keys.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 November 2007