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Zeila

town in Awdal, Somaliland
Place human_settlement Q157800

Facts

7 properties

Identity

Instance of
human settlement
Native label
Saylac[8]

Location

Country
Somalia[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 11.354°, 43.474°[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Zeila & Lughaya State[2]
More facts +2
Capital of
Adal Sultanate[7]
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Zaila en Zayla en Zeila ar زيلع de Saylac de Zaila fi Saylac fr Saylac fr Zeila fr Zeïla fr Zéïla fr Zeilah hi जेइला it Saylac it Zaila ja ゼイラ ko 제일라 pl Zajla pl Zeila pt Saylac
🔖 Identifiers · 16
VIAF cluster ID
137304525
Library of Congress authority ID
n87930226
GND ID
7594757-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Zeila Mosque.jpg ↗
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
42554
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Seylac
Freebase ID
/m/065dm2
GNS Unique Feature ID
-3229016
GeoNames ID
52078
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
31334
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
2274
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564968405171
Show all 16 identifiers +4
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
zeyla
Topic's main category
Category:Zeila
Who's on First ID
1293448825
Yale LUX ID
place/9aab5bbb-ba01-4543-b395-fb0c63e346ec
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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PopulationP1082
18,600 2026-09-26 P/PPL · SO GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Mogadishu 2026-09-26 P/PPL · SO GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
People born here 4
Abdirahman Saylici, Hassan Sheikh Mumin, Hassan al-Jabarti, Yusuf bin Ahmad al-Kawneyn
← Capital 2
Adal Sultanate, Ifat Sultanate
Capital of 1
Adal Sultanate
Country 1
Somalia
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Has these parts 1
Saad ad-Din Islands
Instance of 1
human settlement
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Summary

Zeila is a human settlement[1].

Related Entities

Somalia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Zeila & Lughaya State
    Wikipedia languages → ['am', 'ar', 'arz', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fi', 'fr',
    Described by source → Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    GND ID → 7594757-2
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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