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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.
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.
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. [2] [3] [4]
The location where the extinct tribe of Thamud used to dwell. In the ruins of the old city there are inscriptions that indicate the Dedanites were preceded by a Minean settlement. [ citation needed ] The Mineans established a center at this desert oasis in order to protect the incense trade .
The ruins recently uncovered by archaeologists represent one of the city’s less fortunate temples, officials said. All that remains of the roughly 2,400-year-old temple are its outline, steps ...
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The word Thamud appears in the Annals of the Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 722—705 BCE), inscribed at Dur-Sharrukin. [8] As the "Ta-mu-di", the peoples are mentioned together with the Ephah, the "Ibadidi", and the "Marsimani" as part of "the distant desert-dwelling Arabs who knew neither overseers nor officials and had not brought their tribute to any king".
It is located northeast of Alula, the northernmost town in Somalia. The lagoon is surrounded by mangrove bushes, and appears to correspond with the "large laurel-grove called Acannae" described by the 1st century CE Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. [2] Rhizophora mucronata and Avicennia marina are the predominant mangrove species found in the ...