• Source: Mawza District

Mawza District is a district of the Taiz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 119,818 inhabitants.




History



Mawza'a was the regional capital of Mofar in ancient Yemen, the king of Mawza African trading colony was mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea




= Jewish Exile

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During the rise of the expansion of the Zaydi state when Mawza was part of the kingdom, most of the Yemenite Jews were expelled to Mawza' (1679-1680) in what became known by Yemenite Jews as the Mawza Exile.




= Mocha Port

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During the Mawza Exile, Mocha 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Mawza was the main port of the Zaydi imamate & Muza lost its status as the regional port of Mofar.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mawza District
• Mawza Exile
• Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
• Taiz Governorate
• List of districts of Yemen
• Al-Makha District
• Muza
• Jogendra Nath Hazarika
• 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel
• The Holocaust