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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...
- 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...
- Africans sold into slavery. The Zuwayla are first mentioned during the second Fatimid invasion of Egypt, where captured Zuwayla executed by the Abbasid authorities...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...