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The fourth gate, located on the northeast side of the fortress, connects it to a small fort adjacent to it from the north, providing access to Al-Kut. [10] [15] A photograph taken on May 8, 1945, depicts two terraces leading to Qatif Castle, with locals visible inside the structure.
The Portuguese renovated the castle in the 16th century, specifically on 29 March 1544 CE (1 Jumada al-Awwal 951 AH), during their occupation of the Arabian Gulf. The fort was constructed on the remains of a temple dedicated to the Phoenician goddess Astarte or Inanna, from whom the name "Tarut Island" is derived. The ruins and foundations of ...
The siege of Qatif was a military confrontation between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire at Qatif in 1551. The Portuguese, together with their Hormuzi vassals successfully sieged, captured and demolished the fort captured from the Ottomans.
The Qatif coastline is rich with shrimp and many varieties of fish. Qatif Fish Market is the largest in the Middle East. Qatif villages are known to have many date palms and other fruits. On 8 March 2020 Qatif was put into lockdown by Saudi Arabia until 29 April 2020 because of cases of COVID-19. [34]
The Citadel of Qaitbay (or the Fort of Qaitbay; Arabic: قلعة قايتباي) is a 15th-century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast, in Alexandria, Egypt. It was built from 1477 to 1479 AD (882–884 AH ) by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay . [ 2 ]
Qal'at al-Qatif; Shanqal Fort; Sisira Well, Al-Jawf region; Tarout Island island inhabited since 5000 BC Tarout Castle; Tomb of Eve, archeological site, Jeddah; Uqair salt mine Archaeological site; Tayma. Pharaonic Tayma inscription, hieroglyphic petroglyph found near the oasis of Tayma, Tayma stones, Aramaic inscriptions found in northern ...
Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Al Faihani Palace, also known as the Al Faihani Palace, is an ancient palace adjacent to a fortress known as Darin Castle.It is located in the village of Darin on Tarout Island in Qatif Governorate in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Since Al-Hasa and Qatif were conquered and annexed into the Emirate of Riyadh in 1913 by Ibn Saud, Shiites in the region had experienced state of oppression.Unlike most of Saudi Arabia, Qatif has a Shiite majority, and the region is also being of key importance to the Saudi government due to its closeness to the bulk of Saudi oil reserves as well as the main Saudi refinery and export terminal ...