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This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these ...
The place names of the Maghreb come from a variety of origins, mostly Arabic and Berber, but including a few derived from Phoenician, Latin, and several other languages.. This is well illustrated by the three largest cities of Algeria, for instance: Algiers from Arabic al-jazâ'ir "the islands", Oran from Wahran from Berber wa-iharan "place of lions", and Constantine (Arabic Qasantina ...
This is a list of largest cities in the Arab world. The Arab world is here defined as the 22 member states of the Arab League. [1] ... Kuwait City: 2,380,000 1613 CE ...
Capital of Medina Province, second holiest city of Islam: Dammam: 1,386,166: ... (in Arabic) Saudi Arabia portal; This page was last edited on 2 December 2024, at ...
This is a list of cities on the Arabian Peninsula by population, based primarily on national census estimates of the number of residents residing within the limits of a municipality (i.e. city proper); if recent official data is unavailable, reputable non-governmental estimates are used instead. The minimum population for a city to be included ...
Approximately 28,000 topographic names were changed, which included 12,211 village and town names, and 4,000 mountain, river, and other topographic names. Most name changes occurred in the eastern regions of the country where minority ethnicities form a large part or a majority of the population.
Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia; Karatepe; Finike - historically known as Phoenicus; Rhosos - according Malalas chronograpyh that city was founded by Cilix, son of Agenor the Phoenician King.
Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates Map of the United Arab Emirates. The table below shows a list of every city in the UAE with a population of at least 10,000, listed in descending order. The capitals are shown in bold. The population numbers are of the cities, and not the emirates, often with the same name.