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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.
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 [1] The wadi was superseded as the main road to Dibba when the Trucial Oman Scouts built a new road in 1960, dynamiting passes through the ...
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 .
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 ]
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.
Between 1786 and 1799, during Ottoman rule (1516–1918), Tayyibat al-A'la was part of a lifetime leasehold of Muhammad Effendi al-Muradi, the secretary of the diwan of Damascus. [4] In an 1828 Ottoman tax record, Tayyibat al-A'la was classified as a grain-growing village consisting 65 feddans , making it one of the larger villages of the Hama ...
Al-Zulfi is the most populous city in the Al-Zulfi Governorate, which encompasses the Al-Zulfi Emirate of Riyadh Province within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is situated in the center of the governorate, on the periphery of Shuaib Samnan, between the Tuwaiq Mountains and the sand dunes of Nafud al-Thuwairat. The city's population is 68,317.