Kairwan
- a variation of Kairouan.
Example Sentences
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Locate on the map facing page 376 the following commercial cities in the Arabian Empire: Samarkand; Cabul; Bokhara; Mosul; Kairwan; Fez; Seville; and Toledo.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
Deposits of saltpeter are found in the plateau of Kairwan.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
Wilbur Daniel Steele's "The Marriage in Kairwan" presents an appalling tragedy which, if it be typical, may befall any Tunisian lady who elects for herself man's standard of morality—for himself.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
With them was the caid of Kairwan, the cadi, ben Iskhar, and a dark-skinned cousin from the oases of the Djerid in the south.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
Besides its political capital, the state has its spiritual capital, Kairwan.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
