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AlUla (Arabic: ٱلْعُلَا, romanized: al-ʿUlā) is an ancient Arabian oasis city located in Medina Province, Saudi Arabia.Situated in the Hejaz, a region that features prominently in the history of Islam as well as several pre-Islamic Semitic civilizations, AlUla was a market city on the historic incense route that linked India and the Persian Gulf to the Levant and Europe.
Adjacent to Alula is a shallow lagoon lined by mangrove bushes, which appears to correspond with the "large laurel-grove called Acannae" also described by the Periplus. [6] The Acrocephalus warbler has been heard singing in the coastal mangroves as well. [7] On the coastal plain 20 km to Alula's east are ruins of an ancient monument in a ...
The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU; Arabic: الهيئة الملكية لمحافظة العلا) is a Saudi commission established in July 2017 to preserve and develop the 2,000-year-old archaeological and historical site of Al-Ula north-western Saudi Arabia.
Dedan is mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel, (Chapters 27 and 38).Chapter 27 is a roster of the trading partners of the city of Tyre (today in modern Lebanon), where Dedan is noted as a nation or kingdom which traded in saddle blankets (Ezekiel 27:20).
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Years ago, when novelist Don Winslow first read Aeschylus, he recognized that the Greek father of literary tragedies had explored every major theme found in modern crime fiction, from murder ...
Laura Alho is a Finnish-origin, Riyadh-based travel blogger, writer and photographer. [2] She is the founder of Blue Abaya, the first travel blog in Saudi Arabia, which she launched in 2010. [3]
Adjacent to Alula is a shallow lagoon lined by mangrove bushes, which appears to correspond with the "large laurel-grove called Acannae" also described by the Periplus. [6] The Acrocephalus warbler has been heard singing in the coastal mangroves as well. [7] On the coastal plain 20 km to Alula's east are ruins of an ancient monument in a ...