Border Crossings of Saudi Arabia - Bahrain - Saudi Arabia Border Crossings, Iraq - Saudi Arabia Border Crossings (Paperback)

Chapters: Bahrain - Saudi Arabia Border Crossings, Iraq - Saudi Arabia Border Crossings, Oman - Saudi Arabia Border Crossings, Saudi Arabia - Yemen Border Crossings, Najran, King Fahd Causeway, Ramlat Khaliya, Ar Ar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Najran - The history of Najran could be traced back to 4000 years ago. It was once occupied by the Romans, in fact the first Yemeni city to fall to the Romans on their way to the Yemeni kingdom of Sheba. Najran's most prosperous trading time was during the first and second centuries B.C. In ancient times it was known as Al-Ukhdood. Similarly as with other ancient place names in Arabia "Najran" may have rather been the name of the whole oasis including all towns and villages. The old name of the ruins now known as "Al-Ukhdood" which may have been the central town was probably "Ragmat." Najran was a focal point of the Incense Route. All routes that left ancient Yemen to the north or west had to meet at Najran where the routes branched into two general directions; the ones leading north through the Hejaz towards Egypt and the Levant and those leading to the northwest towards Gerrha near the Persian Gulf. Najran was conquered around 685 BCE by the sabean Mukarrib (King) Karib'il Watar I King of Yemen. The later sabean king Yithi'amar Bayin destroyed Ragmat around 510 BCE. Najran seems to have been under Minaean or Sabean rule at different times during the next centuries and since then it has been Part of Yemen till 1937. The Roman Aelius Gallus led an expedition to conquer Arabia Felix and won a battle near Najran in 25 CE. He occupied the city and used it as a base to attack the sabean capital at Ma'rib. According to Strabo Najran was at this time the northernmost city of the realm of Saba. When the H...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1907226