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Washukanni Washukanni (or Waššukanni) was the capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, from around 1500 BC to the 13th century BC. Its precise location is unknown. A proposal locates it under the largely unexcavated mound of Tell el Fakhariya, near Tell Halaf in Syria, but that is rejected by Edward Lipinski.
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Tell Halaf Tell Halaf (Arabic: تل حلف‎ ‎ ) is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border, just opposite Ceylanpınar. It was the first find of a Neolithic culture, subsequently dubbed the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs. The site, which dates to the 6th millennium BCE, was a Hittite ruling city at first and was later the location of the Aramaean city-state of Guzana or Gozan in the 10th century BCE. By the end of 9th century BCE the city and its surrounding area was incorporated into the Assyrian Empire. During the Syrian Civil War, People's Protection Units took control of the area.
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Sulayman Mountain The Sulayman Mountain (also known as "Taht-I-Suleiman", "Sulayman Rock" or "Sulayman Throne") is the only World Heritage Site located entirely in the country of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan shares the Tian-Shan Silk Road Site with China and Kazakhstan). It is located in the city of Osh and was once a major place of Muslim and pre-Muslim pilgrimage. The rock rises abruptly from the surrounding plains of the Fergana Valley and is a popular place among locals and visitors, with a splendid view.("See" List of World Heritage Sites in Kyrgyzstan)
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Sha'ar HaGai Sha'ar HaGai (Hebrew: שער הגיא‎ ) in Hebrew, or Bab al-Wad in Arabic (Hebrew: באב אל-ואד‎ , Arabic: باب الواد‎ ‎ or باب الوادي ), lit. "Gate of the Valley" in both languages, is a point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, 23 km from Jerusalem, where the road begins to ascend through a deep valley flanked by steep rocky slopes, named in Arabic Wadi Ali.
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Safa and Marwa Safa (Arabic: الصّفا‎ , "Aṣ-Ṣafā " ‎ ) and Marwa (Arabic: المروة‎ , "Al-Marwah " ‎ ) are two small hills now located in the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Muslims travel back and forth between them seven times , during the ritual pilgrimages of "Hajj" and "Umrah".
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Al Wahbah crater The Al Wahbah crater (Maqla Tamia in Arabic) is a volcanic crater, which is about 250 kilometres away from Taif, Saudi Arabia, on the western edge of the Harrat Kishb basalt plateau. The Harrat Kishb plateau contains many volcanic cones. It is 250 m deep and 2 km in diameter. The bottom of the crater is covered with white sodium phosphate crystals.
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Qasr el Yahud Qasr el Yahud (Arabic: قصر اليهود‎ ; also Kasser/Qasser al-Yahud/Yehud etc.; lit. "Castle of the Jews", Hebrew: קאסר אל יהוד‎ ) is the official name of a baptism site in the Jordan River Valley region of the West Bank that is claimed by the State of Palestine and under Israeli occupation. The site and facilities are administered by the Israeli Civil Administration and the Israeli Ministry of Tourism as part of an Israeli national park.
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Halaypotra The Halaypotra (Sindhi: هاليپوٽا‎ ) are a Muslim community found in the state of Gujarat in India and a province of Sindh in Pakistan. They are one of a number of communities of Maldhari pastoral nomads found in the Banni region of Kutch.
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Tell Shemshara Tell Shemshara is an Assyrian archaeological site located along the Little Zab in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, northeastern Iraq. The site was excavated between 1957 and 1959 by Danish and Iraqi archaeologists and was inundated by Lake Dukan until recently. The excavations showed that the site was occupied, although not continuously, from the Hassuna period (early sixth millennium BCE) until the 14th century CE. A small archive recovered from the Middle Bronze Age layers (early second millennium BCE) revealed that, at least in that period, the site was called Shusharra and was the capital of a small, semi-independent polity called "māt Utêm" or "land of the gatekeeper" ruled by a man called Kuwari.
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Gasr Al-Hajj Gasr Al-Hājj (Arabic:قصر الحاج) is a huge fortified granary of circular shape built in the 7th century AH/13th century AD by Abdallah Abu Jatla (Arabic:عبدالله أبوجطلة). It is located in Libya on the Tripoli-'Aziziya-Al Jawf route in Libya about 130 km from Tripoli. It was built to serve as granary for families from the surrounding area in return for quarter of their crops, which, it is said, the owner had endowed as a waqf for teaching Qur'an and Islamic related subjects to the people of the area. The building originally comprised 114 chambers, which could be the number of the subscribing families during the time of construction. It is also speculated that the number 114 was used symbolically to reflect the number of Sura in the Qur'an, a view widely accepted by villagers in the region nowadays. The number of chambers as of now, is 119, as result of splitting 10 chambers due to inheritance disputes. Other changes include the addition of 29 cellars.
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Paristan Paristan or Pari-estan (Persian: پریستان‎ ‎ "pariyestân", "fairyland"; پری "pari" [fairy] + the suffix "-stan") is a name of a "fairyland" in the folklore of Middle East, South Asia and Central Asia. In many children's stories "Koh-e-Qaf" is also used for "fairyland". "Koh-e-Qaf" (Persian: کوہ قاف‎ ‎ ) refers to the Caucasus mountains.
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Shia Muslims in the Arab world Islam is historically divided into two major sects, Sunni and Shia Islam, each with its own sub-sects. Large numbers of Shia Arab Muslims live in some Arab countries including Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the UAE, and Qatar. Shia Muslims are a numerical majority in Iraq and Bahrain. Approximately half of the population in Yemen are Shia Muslims. Exactly half of Muslims in Lebanon are Shia Muslims. There is also a very large population of Shia Muslims living in the Arab Persian Gulf countries especially in Saudi Arabia. Approximately the whole population of East Saudi Arabia, the Eastern Province are Shia Muslims. Although government statistics claim that roughly only 20-40% of the Muslim population are Shia Muslims, there has been dispute to the authenticity of this figure and recent reports and investigations indicate that there is in fact a much larger population of Shia Muslims present, with estimate figures over 45% or even making the majority of Muslim population. Saudi Arabia follows a strict recently established sect of Islam, Wahhabism, there is little freedom of religion between the different sects even whilst all of the population are Muslims. Smaller Shia groups are present in Egypt and Jordan. Despite the heavy presence of Shia Muslims in some Arab countries, particularly among the population of the Persian Gulf Arab countries, they have been treated poorly throughout history. Additionally, in recent times, Shia Muslims along with Kurds have faced genocide by the pan-Arabist regime of Saddam Hussein. For both historical and political reasons, the Shia have fared rather poorly in much of the Arab world, and the topic of Shi‘ism and Shia groups is one of the most sensitive issues for the Sunni elite. This article discusses both the history of Shī‘a Islam in the Arab world from the dawn of Islam and their current situation in the Arabic-speaking world.
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Lake Dukan Lake Dukan (or Lake Dokan) (Central Kurdish: دەریاچەی دووکان‎ ) is the largest lake in Iraqi Kurdistan. It is located close to the city of Ranya, and is a reservoir on the Little Zab created by the construction of the Dukan Dam. The Dukan Dam was built between 1954 and 1959 as a multi-purpose dam to provide water storage, irrigation and hydroelectricity. Prior to the flooding of Lake Dukan, the area has been subjected to archaeological research to investigate as many archaeological sites as possible. An archaeological survey in the Ranya Plain documented some 40 archaeological sites with evidence for occupation ranging from the sixth millennium BCE up to the present. Five of these sites were then excavated: Tell Bazmusian, ed-Dem, Kamarian, Qarashina and Tell Shemshara. The excavations at Tell Bazmusian revealed a temple dating to the second millennium BCE. At Tell Shemshara, an early-sixth millennium BCE village was excavated, as well as an early-second millennium BCE palace with a small archive of clay tablets. The inhabitants of some 50 villages in the flooded area, around 1,000–1,200 families, were resettled to the west of the lake.
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Talafha Talafha (Telfah) is an Arabic tribe, originally from Arabian Peninsula. Big group of this tribe moved from their native land because of a tribal conflict to the north and the eastern north of Hejaz and they settled in Jordan and Iraq. Some groups of the Jordanian parts continued traveling furthermore to the north and finally settled in Syria between Homs and Hamah. Al-Talafha (Telfah) tribe still exist in its original name in Jordan, Syria and Iraq.
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Shivta Shivta (Hebrew: שבטה‎ ‎ , Arabic: شبطا‎ ‎ ), is an ancient city in the Negev Desert of Israel located 43 kilometers southwest of Beersheba. Shivta was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in June 2005.
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Tel Keppe Tel Keppe (also spelled Tel Kaif) (Syriac: ܬܸܠ ܟܹܐܦܹܐ‎ "Tel Kepe ", Arabic: تل كيف‎ ‎ "Tall Kayf "), is an Assyrian town in northern Iraq. Its name means "Hill of Stones" in Syriac. It is located in the Ninawa Governorate, less than 8 miles north east of Mosul. The town is a historic farming town consisting of a densely populated core, surrounded by farm land outside of the city.
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History of the Jews in Kairouan The Tunisian city of Kairouan (Hebrew: קירואן‎ ‎ , Arabic: قيروان‎ ‎ "  "), also known as "Kirwan" or "al-Qayrawan" was a world center of Talmudic and Halakhic scholarship for at least three generations.
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Judaydat al-Khas Judaydat al-Khas or Jdeidet el Khass (Arabic: جديدة الخاص‎ ‎ ) is a village in southwestern Syria in Rif Dimashq Governorate, close to Damascus International Airport. It is located southwest of Lake Otaybah and near the archaeological site of Tell Aswad, known to locals as "The Black Hill". Some of the flints that have been found in the area of the village resemble those from the oldest levels of Tell Ramad. Wild boar is still herded in the nearby mountains today. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Judaydat al-Khas had a population of 6,298 in the 2004 census.
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Tell Taban Tell Taban is an archaeological site in north-eastern Syria in the Al-Hasakah Governorate. It is the site of the ancient city of Ṭābetu.
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Tel Anafa Tel Anafa (Hebrew: תל אנפה‎ ‎ , lit. "Egret hill" Arabic: تل الأخضر‎ , "Tel el-Hader " ‎ , lit. "The green hill") is an archaeological site and nature reserve in the Upper Galilee, Israel.
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Shapsugs The Shapsug (Adyghe: шапсыгъ ] , Russian: шапсуги , Turkish: "Şapsığlar" , Arabic: الشابسوغ‎ ‎ , Hebrew: שפסוגים‎ ‎ ), also known as the Shapsugh or "Shapsogh", are one of the twelve tribes of the Circassian people. In Russia, the remaining Shapsug population mainly live in the Tuapsinsky District (Tuapse) of Krasnodar Krai, Lazarevsky City District of Sochi, and in the Republic of Adygea, which were a small part of historical Circassia. However, the major Shapsug communities are found in Turkey, Israel (Kfar Kama), Jordan (Amman, Naour, Marj Al-Hamam, Wadi Al Seer), Iraq, Syria, Western Europe, and the United States of America. The first Circassians to settle in Amman were from the Shapsug tribe, and as a result the Shapsug's neighbourhood is considered the oldest neighbourhood in the Capital Amman and was the down town of it; however, other Circassians from the Kabardian, Abadzekh, and Bzhedug tribes also settled in Amman afterwards.
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Tell Judaidah Tell Judaidah (Tell al-Judaidah, Tell Judeideh) is an archaeological site in south-eastern Turkey, in the province of Hatay. It is one of the largest excavated ancient sites in the Amuq valley, in the plain of Antioch. Settlement at this site ranges from the Neolithic (6000 BC) through the Byzantine Period.