Kairouan

Kairouan, sometimes spelled Kairwan, Kayrawan or Al Qayrawan, is a city in . It's a holy city in Islam, ranking fourth after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem as a place of pilgrimage.
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  • Type: City with 139,000 residents
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Also known as: “Al Kairouan”, “Al Qayrawan”, “Al Qayrawān”, “Al-Kajrawan”, “Al-Kayrawān”, “Al-Qairawan”, “Al-Qairawân”, “al-Qayrawan”, “Kairowan”, “Kairuano”, “Kairwan”, “Kajraván”, “Kajrowan”, “Kayrawan”, “Keruão”, “Kirwan”, “Qairawan”, “Qairouan”, “Qairwan”, “Qeruán”, “Αλ Καϊραουάν”, “Каирван”, “Кайраан”, “Кайрўан (горад)”, “Кайрўан (места)”, “Кайрўан (Туніс)”, “القيرون”, “قيروان”, “مدينة القيروان”, “কায়রুয়ান”, “கைரோயன்”, “කයිරොඋඅන්”, “카이로우안”, “카이로우완”, “카이루안”, “카이루완”, “카이르안”, “カイラワーン”, “カイラワン”, “カイルアーン”, and “カイルアン”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mosque of the Three Doors and Carpet Museum.

Mosque
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The or Mosque of Muhammad ibn Khairun is a located in the city of Kairouan, Tunisia. Commissioned in 866 during the Aghlabid era by Muhammad ibn Khairun, a private local patron, the mosque is notable for being one of the earliest occurrences of a richly decorated external façade in Islamic architecture.

Museum
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Mosque
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The is a located in the of Kairouan, . Built around 1094 AH, it was constructed by Muradid bey Mohamed Bey for the Hanafi community of Kairouan during a conflict with his brother Ali Bey.

Kairouan

Latitude
35.671° or 35° 40′ 16″ north
Longitude
10.1006° or 10° 6′ 2″ east
Population
139,000
Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)
IATA airport code
QKN
United Nations Location Codes
TN QKN and TN AQR
Open location code
8F7GM4C2+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287543904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2473449
Wiki­data ID
Q179570
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Kairouan” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካይሮዋን”
  • Arabic: “القيروان”
  • Aragonese: “Kairouan”
  • Armenian: “Կայրուան”
  • Asturian: “Kairuán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Qeyrəvan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qayravan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qeyrəvan”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡайраүән”
  • Basque: “Kairuan”
  • Belarusian: “Кайруан”
  • Belarusian: “Кайрўан”
  • Bengali: “কায়রোয়ান”
  • Bengali: “কৈরবান”
  • Bosnian: “Kairuan”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайруан”
  • Catalan: “Kairuan”
  • Cebuano: “Kairouan”
  • Cebuano: “Käyräwan”
  • Chinese: “凯鲁万”
  • Chinese: “凱魯萬”
  • Croatian: “Kairuan”
  • Czech: “Kairuán”
  • Czech: “Kajruván”
  • Dagbani: “Kairouan”
  • Danish: “Kairouan”
  • Dutch: “Kairouan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القيروان”
  • Esperanto: “Kajruano”
  • Estonian: “Al-Qayrawān”
  • Estonian: “Kairouan”
  • Finnish: “Kairouan”
  • French: “Kairouan”
  • Galician: “Kairouan”
  • Georgian: “კაირუანი”
  • German: “Kairouan”
  • German: “Qairawān”
  • Greek: “Καϊραουάν”
  • Greek: “Καϊρουάν”
  • Gujarati: “કૈરૌન”
  • Hausa: “Kairouan”
  • Hebrew: “קירואן”
  • Hindi: “क़ैरवान”
  • Hindi: “कैरौन”
  • Hungarian: “Kairuán”
  • Indonesian: “Kairouan”
  • Irish: “Kairouan”
  • Italian: “Al-Qayrawan”
  • Italian: “Qayrawan”
  • Japanese: “ケルアン”
  • Javanese: “Kairouan”
  • Kabyle: “Qayrawan”
  • Kabyle: “Takerwant”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈರೋವಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Kaýrwan (Kaïrvan, Kerwan) qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Кайруан (Каирван, Керуан) қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Кайруан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Қайруан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Қайруан”
  • Kazakh: “كايرۋان (كاىيرۆان، كەرۋان) قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Кайруан”
  • Korean: “카이르완”
  • Latvian: “Kairavāna”
  • Latvian: “Kairuāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Kairuanas”
  • Malay: “Kairouan”
  • Malay: “Qayrawan”
  • Maltese: “Kairouan”
  • Marathi: “केअरौआन”
  • Moksha: “Кайруан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “القيروان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kairouan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kairouan”
  • Norwegian: “Kairouan”
  • Oromo: “Kairouan”
  • Ossetian: “Кайруан”
  • Pampanga: “Kairawan”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਰੂਆਨ”
  • Persian: “قیروان”
  • Polish: “Kairuan”
  • Portuguese: “Cairuão”
  • Portuguese: “Kairouan”
  • Pushto: “قیروان”
  • Romanian: “Kairouan”
  • Russian: “Кайруан”
  • Scots: “Kairouan”
  • Serbian: “Keruan”
  • Serbian: “Керуан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kairuan”
  • Sicilian: “Kairouan”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරෝඋආන්”
  • Slovak: “Kajruván”
  • Slovenian: “Kairouan”
  • Somali: “Kairouan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیروان”
  • Spanish: “Kairuán”
  • Spanish: “Keruán”
  • Swahili: “Kairouan”
  • Swahili: “Kairuan”
  • Swedish: “Kairouan”
  • Tagalog: “Këyrëwan”
  • Tajik: “Кайруан”
  • Tamil: “கிரௌனா”
  • Tatar: “Kairouan”
  • Telugu: “కేరోయువాన్”
  • Thai: “อัลก็อยเราะวาน”
  • Turkish: “Kayravan”
  • Turkish: “Kayrevan”
  • Uighur: “قەيرەۋان”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайруан”
  • Urdu: “قیروان”
  • Uzbek: “Qayravon”
  • Uzbek: “Qayruvon”
  • Vietnamese: “Kairouan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kairouan”
  • Welsh: “Kairouan”
  • Western Panjabi: “قیروان”
  • Wu Chinese: “凯鲁万”
  • Zulu: “Kairouan”

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