ʿAlwā

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/7234

name of a people in Africa south of the Nuba

Names

  • Arabic: علوا = ʿAlwā 1

Attributes

  • Group

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 309 [Arabic].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “ʿAlwā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/7234.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; and gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān
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