ʿAlwā

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name of a people in Africa south of the Nuba

Names

Arabic: علوا = ʿAlwā 1

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995

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.

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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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