Zeila also known as Zaila or Zayla was a historical
Fourteenth century Arab historian Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari recounted on the usage of the term and its origin being the city of Zeila, a vital port in the region.[12]
this is the region which is called in Egypt and Syria the land of Zaila. This however is only one of their coastal towns and one of their islands, whose name has been extended to the whole— Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari, Masālik al-abṣār fī Mamālik al-amṣār
this is the region which is called in Egypt and Syria the land of Zaila. This however is only one of their coastal towns and one of their islands, whose name has been extended to the whole
Ethiopian scholar Taddesse Tamrat noted that according to the Arab historian Al-Maqrizi, Jabarta was considered part of the region of Zeila.[13][14]
The term Zeila in the thirteenth century was often interchangeable with the
In the fourteenth century Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi mentions the inhabitants of Zeila country were fond of the narcotic khat leaf grown in the region.[19] One of the earliest accounts of coffee in text is by the sixteenth century Islamic scholar Ibn Hajar al-Haytami who writes about its development from a tree in the Zeila region.[20]
The fifteenth century empress
The seventeenth century saw the decline of Adal, described as being divided into smaller separate states due to the “long and bloody” wars waged on Abyssinia.Somalis.[25]However during this period, British government official James Henson noted that Berbera was ruled by the local merchant Sharmake Ali Saleh[26]
According to
With the spread of Islam into Africa in the seventh century, the Somali language, especially certain northern dialects were influenced immensely by Arabic[31] as well as the Harari language with traditional titles such as Garad, Malaq, and Aw adopted by various Somali clans.[32][33] The Zeila region itself positioned at the crossroads of two continents has often been included under the sphere of the South Semitic languages.[34][35]
In the nineteenth-century the inhabitants of Zeila narrated to one British commissioner that the ruined town of Amud (in the Zeila region) was built by the ancient Harla people. The British commissioner attested to the similarities between the ruins of Amud and that of the walled city of Harar.[36]
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