Béjaïa

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Region: Maghreb
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Bejaia: a city on the coast of Algeria, which Ibn Battuta visited on his journey. ¹

The coordinates are taken from GeoNames for a modern place of the same name; matching it with the old site needs an additional source. ²

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Site of: Ibn Ghaniya's seizure of Béjaïa (580 AH)

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علي بن غانية· Ibn Ghaniya's seizure of Béjaïa (580 AH)

Sources

Rihla of Ibn Battuta (Tuhfat al-nuzzar), Arabic edition 1958
GeoNames gazetteer

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islam.museum contributors. “Béjaïa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/bejaia/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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علي بن غانية

Ibn Ghaniya's son, of the Majorca-Menorca-Iviza islands in the western sea; after his father's death in 580 he and his brother Yahya carried their famous wars and ravages through Ifriqiya, Ali living past 591.