- Bab
Zuwayla or Bab
Zuweila (Arabic: باب زويلة) is one of
three remaining gates in the city
walls of
historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also
known as Bawabat...
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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...
- 11th-century
Fatimid reconstruction: Bab al-Nasr, Bab al-****uh, and Bab
Zuwayla. Some
other gates have been
partially recovered through archeological excavations...
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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...
-
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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Africans sold into slavery. The
Zuwayla are
first mentioned during the
second Fatimid invasion of Egypt,
where captured Zuwayla executed by the
Abbasid authorities...
- (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...
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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...
- In 1660 Pope
Matthew IV of
Alexandria transferred the seat from Ḥārat
Zūwayla to Ḥārat al-Rūm,
where it
remained until 1800 when Pope Mark VIII transferred...
- 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...
