Battles of the Ottoman-Saudi War - Turubah, Ottoman-Saudi War, Nejd Expedition, Siege of Diriyah, Battle of Jeddah, Battle of Medina (Paperback)

Chapters: Turubah, Ottoman-saudi War, Nejd Expedition, Siege of Diriyah, Battle of Jeddah, Battle of Medina, Ottoman Return of Mecca 1813, Battle of Al-Safra, Battle of Yanbu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. 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: Turubah - body{behavior: url("/w/skins-1.5/vector/csshover.htc")} Turubah Ancient Ramadan (Ar. ) was a marketplace of Tareba. Its area was a semicircle not more than 600 meters around. All the buildings were made from mud, but the foundations were of stone. Some of the buildings were composed of two floors. In the middle of the market was an area of 50 meters long, 30 meters wide, surrounded by shops and the rear of buildings and the mosque from the north. It could be reached from two entrances, one of them at the north, 2 meters wide, and a southern entrance divided into two passages inside the market, the building of which was penetrated by some vaults. Its commercial goods included butter, dates, rope, wooden household goods and textiles which were used in the wool houses such as Al-Tarige, Al-Felgan and Al-Ghadire. Inside it there were goods brought from Hijazi cities including clothes, coffee, seeds and so forth, also there were war necessities: guns, swords, spears, and gunpowder. Moreover, there were turbans, abbayas and furniture. The market took its name from a fire that happened in the distant past. Its fence was restored by Imam Saud ben Abdul Aziz ben Mohammed after the Turkish attacks on Tareba in 1341 AH (1919 AD). Abdullah ben Mo'ammar, Tareba's prince, also restored the fences, and then Ramadan lost its commercial position in 1390 AH (1969 AD). (The persons belonging to it were 230, including owners, houses and shops). In 1412 AH (1993 AD) the municipality destroyed the old buildings after the building expansion, and the re...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=236612