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Al-Awja ( Arabic: العوجة) is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. It is mainly inhabited by Sunni Arabs. The village is known for being the hometown and place of burial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein . When Saddam was captured by JSOC Task Force 121 and 4th Infantry Division during ...
In the 18th century, Diriyah grew from an oasis settlement, established in a fertile bend in the Wadi Hanifah - Al Awja - into the capital of the First Saudi State, a new nation whose epic history determined the course of peoples and empires far beyond the borders of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Al 'Awja Neutral Zone In 1948 the Egyptian Army used the area as a military base. [ citation needed ] In the Battle of 'Auja , a campaign of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , it was captured by the 89th Mechanized Commando Battalion of Israel, which had an English-speaking platoon of volunteers from England, Germany, the Netherlands, Rhodesia ...
Jarisha ( Arabic: جرِيشة, also transliterated Jerisha; Hebrew: ג'רישה) was a Palestinian Arab village located 200 meters (660 ft) from the ancient site of Tell Jarisha ( Tel Gerisa ), on the south bank of Al-Awja ( Yarkon River ). [5] [6] After the establishment of Tel Aviv, it was one of five Arab villages to fall within its ...
Al-Auja ( Arabic: العوجا) is a Palestinian town in the Jericho Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located ten kilometers north of Jericho. The town has a total area of 107,905 dunams, however its built-up area comprises only 832 dunams. It is situated 230 meters below sea level. Agricultural land makes up over 10% of the town's area ...
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- 107,905 dunams (107.9 km² or 41.7 sq mi)
Saddam Hussein dilahirkan di kota Al-Awja, 13 km dari kota Tikrit di Segitiga Sunni, dalam sebuah keluarga gembala. Ibunya, Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, menamai anaknya yang baru lahir itu "Saddam", yang dalam bahasa Arab berarti "Dia yang menantang".
Sep 16, 2010 · Middle-east Arab News Opinion . Al-Awja, Asharq Al-Awsat – On the road to the village of Al-Awja, the birth place of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, close to the city of Tikrit, which is also the location of Saddam Hussein’s mausoleum, and the tomb’s of his two sons, Uday and Qusay, one finds nothing but a bullet-ridden sign covered in dust which reads “Al-Awja: 30 meters” as ...
