- Bab
Zuweila or Bab
Zuwayla (Arabic: باب زويلة) is one of
three remaining gates in the city wall of the Old City of Cairo, the
capital of Egypt. It was...
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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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remaining gates are Bab al-Nasr (Victory Gate) in the
north and Bab
Zuwayla (Gate of
Zuwayla) in the south. The gate was
built during the
Fatimid period, originally...
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century AD by the
vizier Badr al-Gamali,
parts of
which survive today at Bab
Zuwayla in the
south and Bab al-****uh and Bab al-Nasr in the north.
Among the extant...
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retreated in
disorder to the south,
until they were
encircled near the Bab
Zuwayla gate,
where they
surrendered and were
allowed to
cross the Nile to Giza...
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prisoners were
drawn and
quartered and
their remains were hung from Bab
Zuwayla. Qaitbay's
reign was also
marked by
trade with
other contemporaneous polities...
- he
purposely built in 1160 (the
Mosque of al-Salih Tala'i,
south of Bab
Zuwayla), but this
transfer never occurred.: 124 The
building was reconstructed...
- alive. Accordingly, the last
Mamluk sultan was
executed by
hanging at Bab
Zuwayla, one of Cairo's gates, on 13
April 1517. In
reward for his
betrayal at...
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third surviving gate, Bab
Zuwayla, sits in the
southern section of the wall. Badr al-Gamali
rebuilt the
original Bab
Zuwayla further south than Gawhar...
- (Arabic: مسجد السلطان المؤيد) is a
Mosque in Cairo,
Egypt next to Bab
Zuwayla built under the rule of
sultan Al-Mu'ayyad Sayf ad-Din
Shaykh from whom...
