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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by africurious: [qb] Dana, The capital of abyan province in southern yemen is called zinjibar i.e. coast of the zinj (zanj). Do you know anything about how the capital got it's name? [/qb][/QUOTE]Not sure how Zinjibar got its name but do know that Abyan or Abna is a name that means "Persians" and it is likely the Persians settled in that part of the Yemen who referred to the town as Zanj. Zanj was also their name for the Tzinganes or "gypsies", people of Indonesia and the early black people of Persia "followers of Azh Dhahhak/Zohakk" whom they "pushed into the sea". It is also possible that it is a port in which Africans or other blacks were brought to by the Persians settled who had been settled there since the 6th and 7th centuries. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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