Cairoan
English
Proper noun
Cairoan
(
obsolete
)
Alternative form of
Kairouan
,
a city in Tunisia
.
1771
,
Encyclopaedia Britannica
, 1st ed.
, Vol. II, p. 7:
CAIROAN
, a town of the kingdom of Tunis in Africa,
ſituated
on the river Magrida, about eighty miles
ſouth
of Tunis...