Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote that Mogadishu was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the modern Somalis.

Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote that Latakia under the Ayyubids was " an ancient Greek city, with many antique buildings, and has fine dependencies, also an excellently-built harbor.

Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi ( 1179 – 1229 ), wrote that Ayyubid Nablus was a " celebrated city in Filastin ( Palestine )... having wide lands and a fine district.

The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in his Muʿǧam al-buldan wrote that the name was a compound ( in Persian ) of khwar (), and razm (), referring to the abundance of cooked fish as a main diet of the peoples of this area.

Yaqut al-Hamawi, who visited Khwarezm and its capital in 1219, wrote: " I have never seen a city more wealthy and beautiful than Gurganj ".

Yaqut († 1229 ) wrote that Qalansawe, Castle of the Plans, of the Crusaders, was a fortress near Ramle.

Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote that another shrine near Arsuf that claimed to be the tomb of Shu ´ aib was misidentified.

Yaqut spend the last few years of life in Aleppo and died there.

The possibility of a larger population was offered by the opening of the Qatul al-Kisrawi, the northern extension of the Nahrawan Canal which drew water from the Tigris in the region of Samarra, attributed by Yaqut ( Mu ` jam see under " Qatul ") to the Sassanid king Khosrau I Anushirvan ( 531 – 578 ).

During this period Merv, like Samarkand and Bukhara, was one of the great cities of Muslim scholarship ; the celebrated historian Yaqut studied in its libraries.

" Under Mamluk rule, in 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi describes az-Zeeb as a large village on the coast whose name was also pronounced " az-Zaib ".

After Yaqut was killed and Razia imprisoned, she later wedded Altunia ( the governor of Bhatinda ), but she was killed by her nobles after 3 and half years.

Yaqut al-Hamawi verifies that Khwarezm was a regional capital of the Sassanid empire.

In 1226 Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi visited al-Ludd and stated it was part of the Jerusalem District during Ayyubid rule.

According to Yaqut al-Hamawi, in the early 13th-century during Ayyubid rule, it was " celebrated for the many learned men who were natives of the place.

Many prominent figures from the Islamic period in Palestine were born or buried in Hittin according to early Arab geographers such as Yaqut al-Hamawi and al-Ansari al-Dimashqi ( who himself was called the Shaykh of Hittin ).

Originally a soldier in the service of the Ziyārīds of Ṭabaristān, ‘ Alī was able to recruit an army to defeat a Turkish general from Baghdad named Yaqut in 934.

In 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi writes of Rafah's former importance in the early Arab period, saying it was " of old a flourishing town, with a market, and a mosque, and hostelries.

Yaqut was working as a servant to a trader, Askar ibn Abi Nasr al-Hamawi, who lived in Baghdad, Iraq.

The tomb, located in Bijapur, Karnataka in India, was completed in 1656 by the architect Yaqut of Dabul.

In the Delhi Sultanate period prior to the rise of the Mughals in India, Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a prominent Siddi slave-turned-nobleman who was a close confidant of Razia Sultana ( 1205 – 1240 CE ).

In any case, before long she had aroused the jealousy of the Turkic nobility by the favoritism she displayed toward Yaqut, who was not a Turk, when she appointed him to be Superintendent of the Stables.

A battle between Razia and Altunia ensued, with the result that Yaqut was killed and Razia taken prisoner.

A battle between Razia and Altunia ensued, with the result that Yaqut was killed and Razia taken prisoner.

In 1226, Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi said of Jericho, " it has many palm trees, also sugarcane in quantities, and bananas.

The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi ( d. 1228 ) referred to the village as Hattawa and said it was the home of the Islamic scholar ´ Amru al-Hattawi.

Yaqut al-Hamawi describes Tib as a town inhabited by Nabatean ( i. e. Aramaic speaking ) Sabians who consider themselves to be descendants of Seth son of Adam.

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Yaqut al-Hamawi, the 12th century Syrian geographer, writes that Faran is " an arabized Hebrew word.

* Yaqut al-Hamawi, Arab geographer ( d. 1229 )

* Yaqut al-Hamawi, Arab biographer and geographer ( b. 1179 )

According to the historian Yaqut al-Hamawi, the Böszörmény, ( Izmaleita or Ismaili / Nizari ) denomination of the Muslims who lived in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 10 – 13th centuries, were employed as mercenaries by the kings of Hungary.

Haifa ( or Haifah ) is mentioned by the mid-11th century Persian chronicler Nasir Khusraw, and the 12th and 13th century Arab chroniclers, Muhammad al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi.

Her rumored relationship with a Sidi adviser, Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut, as he continued to rise in rank, forced her nobles to revolt against her.

In 1226, Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi mentioned it as being " a town in Jund Filastin ," and formerly a Crusader castle between Zir ' in and Nazareth.

This city, however, is notably more obscure, and is not mentioned in the standard medieval Arabic geographical texts, such as Ibn Khordadhbeh, al-Idrisi, or Yaqut al-Hamawi.

The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described al-Khisas as falling within the administrative jurisdiction of Banias in Syria.

Although the location is sometimes identified with an ancient settlement mentioned by Yaqut and Al-Hamadani known as " Ghabra ", the history of Diriyah proper dates back to the 15th century.

In the 9th century, Ya ' qubi wrote that Yubna was an ancient city built on a hill that was inhabited by Samaritans.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

He did not neglect his wife in Cromwell Hall, but telephoned her and wrote her with assurances of his continuing interest and of his wish to `` stand behind '' her in their separation and of his hope that there would be no bitterness between them.

It's just like that book your Northern friend wrote -- except there aren't any ice floes to cross and no bloodhounds ''.

If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.

Lincoln wrote, " I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.

He wrote there would be no personal ego left but the consciousness would be able to take on new qualities.

" It is only a question of cards and time ", wrote Henry Babbage in 1888, "... and there is no reason why ( twenty thousand ) cards should not be used if necessary, in an Analytical Engine for the purposes of the mathematician ".

Later Christian writers stated that Ammonius was a Christian, but it is now generally assumed that there was a different Ammonius of Alexandria who wrote biblical texts.

One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.

In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.

Two hundred years before Michell wrote the above, there were no archaeoastronomers and there were no professional archaeologists, but there were astronomers and antiquarians.

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

At the time Bede wrote the Historia Ecclesiastica, there were two common ways of referring to dates.

This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.

The traditional theory holds that John the Apostle — considered to have written the Gospel and the epistles of John — was exiled on Patmos in the Aegean archipelago during the reign of Domitian, and there wrote Revelation.

The effort was sufficiently complete that during the summer of 1973 the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 was rewritten in C. During the 1972 – 73 period there was a need to port to Honeywell 635 and IBM 360 / 370 machines, so Mike Lesk wrote the " portable I / O package " which would become the C " standard I / O " routines.

Hill Top, Near Sawrey – Potter's former home, now owned by the National Trust and preserved as it was when she lived and wrote her stories there.

" There can be found no fact that is true or existent, or any true proposition ," he wrote, " without there being a sufficient reason for its being so and not otherwise, although we cannot know these reasons in most cases.

Although neither of the girls claimed to see any fairies, and there were no more photographs, " on the contrary, he saw them everywhere " and wrote voluminous notes on his observations.

Omniglot goes so far as to assert " Corsican first appeared in writing towards the end of the 19th century ...." Throughout the 19th and 18th century there was a steady stream of writers in Corsican, many of whom wrote also in other languages.