 zabid () (also spelled zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 23,000 personsworld heritage centre/icomos zabid joint monitoring mission, 17â26 january 2007 on yemen's western coastal plain. the town, named after wadi zabid, the wadi (or valley) to its south, is one of the oldest towns in yemen. it was the capital of yemen from the 13th to the 15th century and a center of the arab and muslim world due in large part to its famed university of zabid and being a center of islamic education. it was the capital of the ziyadid dynasty from 819&ndash;1018 and the najahid dynasty from 10
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