Zabīd
... Zabid (Arabic زبيد) (also spelled Zebid) is a town with an urban population of around 23,000 persons 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 ... world due in large part to its famed University of Zabid and being a center of Islamic education ...