Zawāda
زوادة
A large city with much building; the author says the land is known through it, and gives a distance to Alba 1.
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Overview
Zawada is a large, comprehensive city with much building. Al-Idrisi says that its land is known by it, and he mentions the distance between it and the city of Albah. 1
The amount of the distance is not recorded in the data; an additional source is needed.
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 950
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islam.museum contributors. “Zawāda”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/zawada/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.