Zuwayya
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Zuwayya (arabic: الزْوَيّة) (Al-Zuwayya) are an independent Murabtin tribe, one of the major Arab Bedouin tribes of Cyrenaica and Fezzan, Libya.
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Zuwayya (arabic: الزْوَيّة) (Al-Zuwayya) are an independent Murabtin tribe, one of the major Arab Bedouin tribes of Cyrenaica and Fezzan, Libya.
Traditionally practicing nomadic pastoralism of camels in a triangular area with its apex at Ajdabiya, the Zuwayya conquered the richest oasis of the interior, Kufra, in 1840.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zuwayya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.