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Zuwayla

زويلة

A town north of Wadan. The author says it was named after the man who built it and settled there with his cousins in the year 306 AH, and that it is now populated 1, 2.

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Zuwayla is a city north of Wadan. Al-Idrisi attributes it to a man who built it and settled in it with his cousins. He mentions that this was in the year 306 AH, and that in his time it was populous. 1 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 115
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 116
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