Kairouan
Americannoun
noun
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The city of Kairouan was founded in 670 AD and is one of North Africa's holiest cities.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023
Reinforced later by forty thousand soldiers from Damascus, the Islamic advance established a beachhead at Kairouan in modern-day Tunisia.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In a village outside the central city of Kairouan, Mahdouani quizzed Seiada Issaoui, an elderly woman with ink marks on her forehead, cheeks, nose and chin, about the prevalence of tattoos when she was young.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2022
Patients in the hospital’s overfilled COVID-19 ward are dying daily amid a spike in coronavirus infections in the North African country, with Kairouan and three other regions especially hard hit.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
You don't mean—" "I must start for Kairouan to-morrow morning.
From The Call of the Blood by Lowell, Orson
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