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Zawiyah

Zawiyah proper noun: the capital city of Zawiya district, Libya.

Proper noun

Zawiyah

  1. The capital city of Zawiya district, Libya.
    • When he got to Zawiyah, the coastal town west of Tripoli that has become the main hub for the people-smuggling industry, he was kidnapped a second time and held in a tiny cell for six months.2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025

Questions about Zawiyah

What does Zawiyah mean?
Zawiyah means the capital city of Zawiya district, Libya.
What part of speech is Zawiyah?
Zawiyah is a proper noun.

Words near Zawiyah in the dictionary

  1. Zawislak
  2. Zawislaks
  3. Zawistowski
  4. Zawistowskis
  5. zawiya
  6. Zawiyah
  7. zawiyas
  8. zawn
  9. zawns
  10. Zawra'
  11. zax

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