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Lake Dumat Al-Jandal
Lake Dumat al-Jandal is an anthropogenic body of water, created in Dumat al-Jandal, Al-Jawf Province, northern Saudi Arabia, as a means of mitigating the risk of flooding caused by excess irrigation water from palm plantations. To accommodate the excess water, surface wells were constructed to facilitate its elevation and subsequent discharge over a neighboring hill, thereby forming the basis of this artificial lake. Lake Dumat al-Jandal is the largest unnatural lake in the Arabian Peninsula and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in particular. Description The lake is situated on a vast expanse on the banks of the Umar ibn al-Khattab Mosque and the historic Marid Castle, encompassed by mountains on multiple sides and overlooking the western side of the Dumat al-Jandal palm trees. Lake Dumat Al-Jandal is distinguished by its location within a desert setting. The lake was formed due to the irrigation project that commenced in 1987, with the water flowing from the surrounding hills i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries by area, fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the List of countries and dependencies by area, 12th-largest in the world. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the south. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and most of Geography of Saudi Arabia, its terrain consists of Arabian Desert, arid desert, lowland, steppe, and List of mountains in Saudi Arabia, mountains. The capital and List of cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumat Al-Jandal
Dumat al-Jandal (, ), also known as Al-Jawf or Al-Jouf (), which refers to Wadi Sirhan, is an ancient city of ruins and the historical capital of the Al Jawf Province, today in northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is located 37 km from Sakakah. The city stood north of the Nafud desert and at one end of Wadi Sirhan, at a major intersection of ancient trade routes part what is known as the incense route, with one branch linking the various sources of valuable goods in India and southern Arabia with Babylon, and another linking the Persian Gulf through Wadi Sirhan with southern Syria. Proceedings of a conference held in Berlin in 2011. It has a historical boundary wall and stands within an oasis. The ancient city of Duma was described as "the stronghold of the Arabians" on the Neo-Assyrian Esarhaddon Prism (cuneiforms on clay prism, 673-672 BC). Some scholars identify this site as territory of Dumah, one of the twelve sons of Ishmael mentioned in the Book of Genesis. Etym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Jawf Province
Al-Jawf Province, also known as Al-Jawf Region also spelled Al-Jouf ( Minṭaqat al-Jawf, ), is a Provinces of Saudi Arabia, province in Saudi Arabia, located in the north of the country, partially bordered by Jordan to the west. It is one of the earliest inhabited regions of the Arabian Peninsula. With evidence of human habitation dating back to the Stone Age and the Acheulean tool culture. Human settlement continued unbroken throughout the Chalcolithic, Copper Age, a period that saw the Qedarites, kingdom of Qidar fight against the Assyrian homeland, Assyrian state for its independence. It is also in this period that references to Arabs first appear in historical texts. A Christian kingdom later emerged under the rule of the Banu Kalb, Bani Kalb tribe and survived until the arrival of Islam and the Early Muslim conquests, Islamic conquest of Al-Jawf. Following the region's Spread of Islam, Islamization it fell under the control of the Tayy tribe. Al-Jouf was incorporated into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (, , or , , ) or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated north-east of Africa on the Arabian plate. At , comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the Roman era, the Sinai Peninsula was also considered a part of Arabia. The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and south-west, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the north-east, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the south-east. The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of petroleum, oil and natural gas. Before the mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Launched for public access in 2001, the service allows users to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages. The Wayback Machine's earliest archives go back at least to 1995, and by the end of 2009, more than 38.2 billion webpages had been saved. As of November 2024, the Wayback Machine has archived more than 916 billion web pages and well over 100 petabytes of data. History The Internet Archive has been archiving cached web pages since at least 1995. One of the earliest known pages was archived on May 8, 1995. Internet Archive founders Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat launched the Wayback Machine in San Francisco, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque
The Mosque of Umar ibn al-Khattab () is a Sunni Islam mosque, located within the historic city of Dumat al-Jandal in the Al Jawf Province of Saudi Arabia. The mosque is named after the Rashidun caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, who is believed to have constructed the mosque, although this claim has been contested. The mosque's minaret is the first of its kind to be built in North Arabia as well. Adjacent to the mosque is the historic Marid Castle which dates from around the 1st century CE. History The mosque was built during the reign of the Umayyad Caliphate. Islamic tradition reports that Umar ibn al-Khattab built the mosque to pray at, while on his journey to Jerusalem, hence the mosque's name. However, the structure of the mosque does not resemble architecture contemporary to the time period of the Rashidun Caliphate, so the attribution of its construction to Umar is considered by some historians to be unreliable. In 1793, the Saud family renovated the mosque, as well as rebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marid Castle
Marid Castle (or Marid balance) is a historic military fortress located in the city of Dumat al-Jandal in the Al-Jawf region of Saudi Arabia, about 50 km from Sakaka. Built in the first century AD, it was first mentioned in the third century in the context of Queen Zenobia's campaign against Dumat al-Jandal and Tayma's rebellion, when her troops weren't able to capture the fortress. Etymology The castle of Marid was named for its rebellion and insurrection against those trying to storm it, as stated by Yaqout al-Hamwi. Location The castle is located on a hill rising to about 620 meters above sea level, and overlooks the city of Dumat al-Jandal, which is affiliated to the Al-Jawf region from the western side. That contributed to its importance, as the castle can oversee all parts of the town and observe any approaching friend or foe long before they arrive. History Marid fortress dates back to the first century. The oldest mention of it dates back to the third century AD when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and Pore space in soil, soil pore spaces and in the fractures of stratum, rock formations. About 30 percent of all readily available fresh water in the world is groundwater. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an ''aquifer'' when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock become completely saturated with water is called the ''water table''. Groundwater is Groundwater recharge, recharged from the surface; it may discharge from the surface naturally at spring (hydrosphere), springs and Seep (hydrology), seeps, and can form oasis, oases or wetlands. Groundwater is also often withdrawn for agricultural, municipal, and industrial use by constructing and operating extraction water well, wells. The study of the distribution and movement of groundwater is ''hydrogeology'', also called groundwater hydrology. Typically, groundwater is thought o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by rivers. Lakes, as with other bodies of water, are part of the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Most lakes are fresh water and account for almost all the world's surface freshwater, but some are salt lakes with salinities even higher than that of seawater. Lakes vary significantly in surface area and volume of water. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which are also water-filled basins on land, although there are no official definitions or scientific criteria distinguishing the two. Lakes are also distinct from lagoons, which are generally shallow tidal pools dammed by sandbars or other material at coastal regions of ocean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modon Lake
Modon Lake is the largest developed Artificial lake in Saudi Arabia. Located in the Second Industrial City of Dammam, it was established by the Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones, also known as Modon. Overview Modon Lake is the largest artificial lake in Saudi Arabia, featuring environmentally treated renewable water. It was officially opened on 15 March 2014 in the presence of the governor of the Eastern Province, Saud bin Nayef, and the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Tawfig Al-Rabiah. The entire project covers an area of approximately 400,000 square meters, with the lake itself occupying around 210,000 square meters. The development includes extensive green spaces, highlighted by the planting of 760 date palm trees arranged throughout the area in a thoughtful and aesthetic layout. Pedestrian walkways, designed to accommodate visitors, extend for about four kilometers around the lake. Modon Lake serves as a popular recreational destination and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Asfar Lake
Al-Asfar Lake (Arabic: بحيرة الأصفر, Buḥayrat al-Aṣfar, meaning "Yellow Lake") is a lake located east of Umran City in the Al-Ahsa Governorate in Eastern Saudi Arabia. It covers an area of approximately 20.8 square kilometers (20,800,000 m²). The lake is surrounded by sand dunes and is somewhat difficult to reach. Al-Asfar Lake is one of the most important wetland shallow lakes in the region. The lake is a historic landmark of Al-Hasa, and was mentioned by some historians of the Abbasid and Islamic Golden Era, such as Al-Hamawi, Al-Qalqashandi, and Al-Zamakhshari. At present, the primary source of the lake's water is agricultural drainage water, which leads some people to refer to it as semi man-made. In 2019, Al-Asfar Lake was declared a national nature reserve. History The lake has been mentioned by several historians such as Al-Hamawi and Al-Qalqashandi. The lake is also mentioned by Al-Zamakhshari in his book ''"Kitab al-Amkinah wa al-Jibal wa al-Miyah'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
