Zeila
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zeila-161-3548546
title:
Zeila
text:
Zeila, also known as Zaila or Zayla, is a historical port town in the western Awdal region of Somaliland. In the Middle Ages, the Jewish traveller Benjamin of Tudela identified Zeila with the Biblical location of Havilah. Most modern scholars identify it with the site of Avalites mentioned in the 1st-century Greco-Roman travelogue the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and in Ptolemy, although this is disputed. The town evolved into an early Islamic center with the arrival of Muslims shortly after t
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Town in Awdal, Somaliland
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeila
date created:
2005-05-19T09:02:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T08:40:05Z
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13
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