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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.
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).
Al-Qurh, is a village and archaeological site near Al-'Ula, north of Medina Saudi Arabia. [1] The name القرح name translates as ulcers. Qurh, also known as al-Ma'abiyat, was the principal settlement of Wadi al-Qura and is identified with the ruins of al-Ma'abiyat in Wadi al-'Ula, eighteen kilometers southeast of the oasis Al-'Ula.
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 ...
The Ruins is the book of the summer because, put simply, it's so good that it'll ruin every other book's chances. [ 6 ] Stephen King made the comment in a column for Entertainment Weekly , writing, "The Book of the Summer: That would be The Ruins , by Scott Smith, last heard from in 1993 ( A Simple Plan , later filmed by Sam Raimi from Smith's ...
Alula was an ornithological magazine published in Turku, Finland. [1] The magazine was published on a quarterly basis. [1] Initially it was published in both Finnish and English; the final volumes were published in English only. It was aimed primarily at birders with an interest in the birds of the Western Palearctic.
The statue originates from the Lihyanite period that existed during the second half of the first millennium BCE.The Dadan archaeological site was the capital of the Dadan and Lihyanite Kingdoms during the first millennium BCE, a period of progress in AlUla due to its presence along the trade route connecting the civilizations of the southern and northern parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
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]