The Magic of Oz™

Gilgad

also City of Gilgad

Gilgad is the city where King Rinkitink's palace stands, on a rocky headland of the Kingdom of Rinkitink.

First named in Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 1

Therefore, once every year His Majesty was able to send six of his boats, with sixty rowers and many sacks of the valuable pearls, to the Kingdom of Rinkitink, where there was a city called Gilgad, in which King Rinkitink's palace stood on a rocky headland and served, with its high towers, as a lighthouse to guide sailors to the harbor.

Where this is

  • placed Beyond the desert worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

Names in the books

What the books say it is

  • region Kingdom of Rinkitink 1 chapter
    • "I am King Rinkitink, of the City of Gilgad in the Kingdom of Rinkitink, and I have come to Pingaree to see for myself the monarch who sends to my city so many beautiful pearls.
      Rinkitink in Oz, ch. 2

Appearances

Rinkitink in Oz (12 of 24 chapters)

Connections from others

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