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हिजाज़ पहाड़ियों में 'मह्द अल-दहब' (या मह्द अल-ज़हब, Mahd adh Dhahab, مهد الذهب) नामक क्षेत्र स्थित है जो अरबी प्रायद्वीप का सबसे विख्यात सोना ...
Hijaz. 'Barrier.'. A province in west-central Saudi Arabia in which the holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located. ... Hijaz means “barrier,” named after a range of high mountains, which rises parallel to the Red Sea coast and in the east gradually declines to form the Arabian plateau ...
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The western coastal escarpment of the Arabian Peninsula is composed of two mountain ranges, the Hijaz Mountain to the north and the Asir Mountainsfarther south, with a gap between them near the middle of the peninsula's coastline. From an elevation of 2,100 metres (6,900 ft), the range declines towards the vicinity of the gap about 600 metres (2,00...
The Arabian leopard had been sighted here. In ancient times, it was reported that Musa al-Kadhim, a descendant of Muhammad, encountered a lion in the wilderness north of Medina. Hamadryas baboons can be seen near settlements, like those of Al Hada and Al-Shafa near Ta'if.
This region includes the district of Mahd adh-Dhahab ("Cradle of the Gold"), between Meccaand Medina. It is the principal gold-silver mine of Saudi Arabia but was only productive in c.a. 950 B.C. and 750-1258 A.D. and c.a. 1939-54.
Dhu 'Ain in the area of Al-BahahA road in the mountains between Al Bahahand Al-MikhwahPilgrims supplicating on the Mount of Mercy in Arafat during Ḥajj (the Greater Islamic Pilgrimage)Jabal al-Nour ("Mount of Light") near Makkah, associated with MuhammadThe Hejaz ( / hiːˈdʒæz, hɪˈ -/, also US: / hɛˈ -/; Arabic: ٱلْحِجَاز, romanized : al-Ḥijāz, lit. 'the Barrier', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [alħɪˈdʒaːz]) is a region that includes the majority of the west coast of Saudi Arabia, covering the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah, Tabuk, Yanbu, Taif and Baljurashi.
Hejaz. The Hejaz (or Hijaz) covers the central Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. Home to both commercial hub Jeddah and the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, this is where the famous railway from Damascus led in its brief heyday, and while politically somewhat eclipsed by Riyadh, Jeddah in particular remains the most cosmopolitan city in ...
<ASIR, AND THE HIJAZ MOUNTAINS W. THESIGER In 1945, after two months spent among the stern dour Puritans of the Najd, I had passed quickly through the Tihama from Jidda to Qizan and ever since I had been troubled by the memory of this graceful laughing people. In 1946, driven from the Empty Quarter by the summer heat, I had come back,
Jan 1, 2018 · Abstract. The Hijaz (Hejaz and Hedjaz, الحجاز al-Ḥiǧāz) is an obscure Arabic geographic designation to the western region of the Arabian Peninsula. In Arabic, the word means barrier which...
