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Rabat: From Arabic الرباط, meaning "Fortified Place." Fez (1472–1524): From Arabic فاس, meaning "Walled City." Meknes: Meknes is named after a Berber tribe which was known as Miknasa (native name: Imknasn) in the medieval Arabic sources.
Arabic is the main language used in television and radio but radio broadcasts are also made in different languages such as Urdu, French, or English. Riyadh has four Arabic newspapers; Asharq Al-Awsat (which is owned by the city governor), Al Riyadh , Al Jazirah and Al-Watan , two English language newspapers; Saudi Gazette and Arab News , and ...
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 ...
In the late 9th century, Amman was noted as the "capital" of the Balqa by geographer al-Yaqubi. [39] Likewise, in 985, the Jerusalemite historian al-Muqaddasi described Amman as the capital of Balqa, [39] and that it was a town in the desert fringe of Syria surrounded by villages and cornfields and was a regional source of lambs, grain and ...
Cairo (/ ˈ k aɪ r oʊ / ⓘ KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة, romanized: al-Qāhirah, Egyptian Arabic: [el.qɑ(ː)ˈheɾɑ] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. [5] It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East.
Damascus (/ d ə ˈ m æ s k ə s / də-MAS-kəs, UK also / d ə ˈ m ɑː s k ə s / də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشْق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria.It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
Rabat (/ r ə ˈ b ɑː t /, also UK: / r ə ˈ b æ t /, US: / r ɑː ˈ b ɑː t /; [3] [4] [5] Arabic: الرباط, romanized: ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) [2] and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.
Tunis (Arabic: تونس, Tūnis ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as " Grand Tunis ", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020 [update] , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers ) and the eleventh-largest in the Arab world .