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Suwayqa (unknown)

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A place near Medina where a prominent branch of the Alid family lived until al-Mutawakkil's army destroyed it

Names

  • Arabic: سويقة = Suwayqa 1

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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), (1) 121، 316 (3) 286، 343 (4) 90، 250، 341 (5) 158، 284 [Arabic].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Suwayqa” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/8741.

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