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    Bawarij (Sindhi: باوارج‎; sg. Sindhi: برجا‎) were Sindhi pirates named for their distinctive barja warships (which means "large vessels of war" in Arabic)...
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  • being stolen. Meds (a tribe of Scythians living in Sindh) also known as Bawarij had pirated upon Sassanid shipping in the past, from the mouth of the Tigris...
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    naval commanders by the Chinese dynasties and foreign maritime powers. Bawarij were Sindhi pirates named for their distinctive barja warships who were...
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  • Khohro, resulting in the deaths of two men and a little girl in Khairpur. Bawarij Web Desk (July 11, 2015). "Shikarpur gunfight leaves two bandits, two policemen...
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  • (Fem.) CāCiCah CawāCiC ‏قَائِمَة‎ qāʾimah ‘list’ قَوَائِم qawāʾim ‘lists’ bawārij (battleships) CāCūC CawāCīC ‏صَارُوخ‎ ṣārūḫ ‘rocket’ صَوَارِيخ ṣawārīḫ...
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    Sindh. The port city was home to thousands of Sindhi sailors including the Bawarij. Ibn Hawqal, a tenth-century writer, geographer and chronicler, mentions...
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  • were seafaring people. Some of them carried piracy in the Indian Ocean as Bawarij. The incident in which they captured two treasure ships coming from Ceylon...
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    the past, from the mouth of the Tigris to the Sri Lankan coast, in their bawarij and now were able to prey on Arab shipping from their bases at Kutch, Debal...
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    Sindh. The port city was home to thousands of Sindhi sailors including the Bawarij. Ibn Hawqal, a 10th-century writer, geographer and chronicler, mentions...
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    headquarters at Kutch and Somnath, were, from the word Baira, a boat, known as Bawarij. Early in the eleventh century (1023) Bhima I fled before Mahmud Ghazni...
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