Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mohamed is the third son of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first president of the UAE and the 16th ruler of Abu Dhabi. [6] [7] Mohamed became the crown prince of Abu Dhabi in November 2004, following the death of his father, when his brother, Sheikh Khalifa became the second president of the UAE and the ruler of Abu Dhabi. [8]
The family is a branch of the House of Al Falahi (Āl Bū Falāḥ), a branch of the Bani Yas tribe, and are related to the House of Al Falasi from which the ruling family of Dubai, the Al Maktoum, descends. The Bani Yas came to Abu Dhabi in the 18th century from Liwa Oasis. [1] They have ruled Abu Dhabi since 1793, and previously ruled Liwa.
Zayed City (Arabic: مَدِيْنَة زَايِد, romanized: Madīnat Zāyid), formerly "Abu Dhabi Capital District", is a construction project which will be built 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) inland south of Abu Dhabi island in the United Arab Emirates, between Mohammed Bin Zayed City and Abu Dhabi International Airport. The new district will ...
Al Ain is the largest inland city in the Emirates, the fourth-largest city (after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah), and the second-largest [2] in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The freeways connecting Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai form a geographic triangle in the country, each city being roughly 130 kilometres (81 mi) from the others.
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan club Honorary President since 1974. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed is the current club president since 1979.. Since its founding in 1968, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, helped the club financially and gave the founders the first club headquarters, became club Honorary President on 13 November 1974. [1]
Zayed was born at Qasr al-Hosn, Abu Dhabi, in 1918 [15] and moved from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain in 1926, after the death of his father. [1] [16] As Zayed was growing up in Al-Ain, there were no modern schools anywhere along the coast.
As a region, Al-Ain has been inhabited for over 7 millennia, as demonstrated by archeological finds. In particular, there are tombs shaped as beehives in the area of Mezyad, at the base of Jebel Hafeet, which date back to the Hafit period of the Early Bronze Age, besides [4] [9] In the 1950s, Sheikh Zayed, who would become the founding President of the United Arab Emirates, discovered the ...
Zayed National Museum (Arabic: مَتْحَف زَايِد ٱلْوَطَنِي, romanized: Matḥaf Zāyid Al-Waṭanī) is a planned museum, to be located in Abu Dhabi, the UAE. It is designed as a memorial to the late Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father and first president of the UAE. [1]