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Prior to 1960, Wadi Tayyibah provided the main route from Masafi to Dibba and sections of tarmac are still visible, particularly on the lower reaches of the wadi as it approaches the village of Al Hala. [1] The wadi was superseded as the main road to Dibba when the Trucial Oman Scouts built a new road in 1960, dynamiting passes through the ...
Tayyib-Ism [1] is a small town in north-western Saudi Arabia in the province of Tabuk. [2] It is located in the upland area (314 m), approx. 10km east of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, at 28° 34' 0"n, 34° 50' 0"e. [3] [4] To the west of the village there are unspoiled coral reefs.
Al-Taybah (Arabic: الطيبة, also transliterated al-Tayyibah or al-Ta'iba), historically called Tayyibat al-Ism, is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located west of Daraa. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Taybah had a population of 7,969 in the 2004 census. [1]
A village called Tayyibat al-Ism was on the list of lands allocated by sultan Baibars to his amirs in 663 AH (1265–1266 CE), about five centuries after the Arab conquest of Palestine. In Mamluk times, the village name appeared on documents referring to the waqf of the mosque in Hebron .
Bow of the Spiegel Grove Anti-aircraft gun on the stern of the Thistlegorm Deck of the Um Al Faroud Entrance to the cave system at Dos Ojos Diving at Piccaninnie ponds Wazee Lake near Black River Falls, Wisconsin is a former iron mining quarry now used for scuba diving and other uses. Recreational dive sites of the greater Cape Town region.
The Wadi al-Taym was the first area where the Druze appeared in the historical record under the name "Druze". [6] According to many of the genealogical traditions of the Druze feudal families, the feudal Druze clans claimed descent from Arab tribes originally based in eastern Arabia and which entered Syria after periods of settlement in the ...
The Baqa'a Valley, sometimes called Beqa'a Valley, is a fertile agricultural Palestinian area in the West Bank, just east of Hebron. Located in the area are the Palestinian villages Al Bowereh, Al Baqa and Wadi al-Ghrous. The Israeli settlement Givat Harsina abuts on the northern outskirts; [1] Kiryat Arba borders the south. The Valley is ...
Between 1786 and 1799 Taybat al-Ism (listed then as 'Tayyibat al-A'la') was part of a lifetime leasehold of Muhammad Effendi al-Muradi, the secretary of the diwan of Damascus. [2] Taybat al-Ism later came under the ownership of a sheikh of the Mawali tribe, who sold it to the prominent landowning Azm family of Hama in 1880. [ 3 ]