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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...
- Bab
Zuweila or Bab
Zuwayla (Arabic: باب زويلة) is one of
three remaining gates in the city
walls of
historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also
known as Bawabat...
- 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...
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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...
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Awjila was a
stage on the
trading route between the
Ibadi Berber capital of
Zuwayla in the
Fezzan and the
newly established Fatimid capital of
Cairo in Egypt...
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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...
- 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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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...
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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...
