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Zawila (also
spelled Zuila, Zweila, Zwila, Zawilah,
Zuwayla or Zuweila) is a
village in
southwestern Libya.
During the
Middle Ages, it was the capital...
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Zawila may
refer to:
Zawila,
Libya Zawīla, a
suburb of Mahdia,
Tunisia Zeila, a port in
Somalia Zeila (historical region),
historic region in the Horn...
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Mahdia (Arabic: المهدية al-Mahdīyah) is a
Tunisian coastal city with 62,189 inhabitants,
south of
Monastir and
southeast of Sousse.
Mahdia is a provincial...
- London. 2007 [2001]. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-7566-2875-8. Vikør, K. S. (2002). "
Zawīla". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Heinrichs...
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southern Tunisia, and the
Jebel Nafusa and
Fezzan regions in
Libya as far as
Zawila. The Ibāḍī
movement reached North Africa by 719, when the
missionary Salma...
- the
south of Lake Chad were
raided as kafirun, and then
transported to
Zawila in the Fezzan,
where the
slaves were
traded for
horses and weapons. The...
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African slave trade through the
Sahara is so
extensive that the town of
Zawila (Tunisia) is established. Maya Civilization:
Tikal Temple I,
called the...
- in 641, re****erted
Muslim influence in the
Fezzan region,
capturing the
Zawila oasis and the
Garamantes capital of Germa. He may have
raided as far south...
- east–west
route connecting Egypt to Ghana, Mali, and Songhai. Kanem-Bornu-
Zawila was
another route to
North Africa as the Kanem–Bornu
Empire in the eastern...
- inhabitants.
According to Ibn Abī Dīnār,
George "restored both
cities of
Zawīla and Mahdiyya; lent
money to the merchants; gave alms to the poor; placed...
