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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.
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 ...
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.
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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.