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During the Pre-Islamic era, the city at the site of modern Riyadh was called Hajr (Arabic: حجر), and was reportedly founded by the tribe of Banu Hanifa. [17] [18] Hajr served as the capital of the province of Al-Yamamah, whose governors were responsible for most of central and eastern Arabia during the Umayyad and Abbasid eras.
The Riyadh Province (Arabic: منطقة الرياض Manṭiqat ar-Riyāḍ), also known as the Riyadh Region, is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the geographic center of the country and the center of the Arabian Peninsula.
Map showing the major cities in Saudi Arabia. City Population [1] Comments Abha: 334,290 (2022) Capital city of Asir Ad-Dilam: ... Riyadh Al-Khabra: 25,588 (2022)
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Al-Rawdah (Arabic: الروضة, lit. 'the meadow') is a residential neighborhood in eastern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, [1] [2] [3] and the seat of the homonymous sub-municipality of al-Rawdah. [4] located east of King Abdullah District and south of al-Quds. The district emerged in the 1970s and is named after the singular form of the Arabic word ...
City of Riyadh: 4,137,280 5,455,363 Kharj Governorate 323,394 Duwaidmi Governorate ... Hafr al-Batin Governorate 338,636 Jubail Governorate 224,430 Khafji Governorate
Al-Olaya (Arabic: العليا, romanized: al-ʿulāyā), alternatively transliterated as al-Ulaya, is the central business district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located mostly in the sub-municipality of its namesake, al-Ulaya, and partially in al-Malaz and al-Ma'dher.
Dakhnah Gate, 1937. The walled town of Riyadh succeeded from the town of Migrin in the 1740s, when Dahham bin Dawwas, a tribal leader from Manfuhah, consolidated his rule by constructing an earth-structured fortified wall that encircled the town and building a palace for himself, which was later known as the al-Hukm Palace.