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2. Islamic architecture - Wikipedia

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   It consisted of a simple courtyard structure built in unbaked brick, with a rectangular, almost square, floor plan measuring about 53 by 56 meters. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] A shaded portico supported by palm trunks stood on the north side of the courtyard, in the direction of prayer (the qibla ), which was initially towards Jerusalem .

3. File:Middle East topographic map-blank.svg - Wikipedia

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   This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape …important. This SVG file contains embedded text that can be translated into your language, using any capable SVG editor, text editor or the SVG Translate tool .

4. Desert castles - Wikipedia

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   The typical desert castle is a compound of various buildings including a substantial main residence along with other buildings such as a hammam (bath-house), storage areas and other agrarian structures (walled areas for animals, dedicated buildings for processing produce such as olive oil), and possibly a mosque, all within a large enclosure.

5. Madaba Map - Wikipedia

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   Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan.. The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert.

6. File:Map world middle east.svg - Wikipedia

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   Description: Map of Countries of the Middle East. Beschreibung: Karte von Ländern des Nahen Ostens. Based on Image:BlankMap-World6, compact.svg, country information from Image:Map-World-Middle-East.png: Date: 9 May 2008 (original upload date) Source: No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author

7. Qasr al-Azraq - Wikipedia

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   The strategic significance of the castle is that it lies in the middle of the Azraq oasis, the only permanent source of fresh water in approximately 12,000 square kilometres (4,600 sq mi) of desert. Several civilizations are known to have occupied the site for its strategic value in this remote and arid desert area.

8. Riad (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   A riad garden in the Bahia Palace of Marrakesh, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A riad or riyad (Arabic: رياض, romanized: riyāḍ) is a type of garden courtyard historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus.

9. Rub' al Khali - Wikipedia

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   This was the first known crossing within Saudi Arabia from south-north on foot through the highest sand dunes of the Rub Al' Khali. The pair crossed 300 km (190 mi) in nine days 12 hours and 59 minutes. [28] In 2020, Italian extreme desert explorer Max Calderan completed a Rub' al Khali exploration on foot for the first time ever from west to east.