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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 ...
About 4km from the modern town of Al-'Ula are a set of ruins, [1] [2] These ruins here are the remnant of a former Capital of the Dedanites, which was flourishing from 800BC to the 1st century. At this time the wadi was a stop on the spice routes.
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-Faqir Fort (Arabic: قلعة الفقير) is an 18th-century fort situated in the Levantine pilgrimage route on a small hilltop in the southern portion of modern-day Al-'Ula, Saudi Arabia.
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 ...
By Ramadan Abed and Dawoud Abu Alkas. GAZA (Reuters) - The Mohammed family sat up talking late into the night before their journey north to the ruins of their Gaza home, a trudge across a desolate ...
Alula was born in Mennewe, a village in Tembien, the son of Engda Eqube, a farmer of modest origins.Haggai Erlich relates a story about Alula's childhood – "well known throughout Tigray": a group of people carrying baskets of bread to a wedding ceremony were stopped by a group of children led by the future Ras, who demanded to know where they were going.