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  2. al-Ula - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Dedan (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Qurh, Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Book Review: 'City of Ruins' completes a masterful Don ... - AOL

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    For the last 30 years, while churning out a succession of books that include some of the best crime novels ever written, he worked on the ambitious project in fits and starts, sometimes despairing ...

  6. Alula, Ras Aseir - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Royal Commission for Al-Ula - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Old Town, Al-Ula - Wikipedia

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  9. Ras Alula - Wikipedia

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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.