Ain Mohammed ( ar, عين محمد) is an abandoned village in

Qatar Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it ...

, located in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

Ash Shamal Al Shamal ( ar, ٱلشَّمَال, Ash Shamāl) is a municipality in the state of Qatar. Its seat is called ''Madinat ash Shamal'' and it is considered to be one of the major cities in Qatar, although the population is barely over 8,000. The se ...

. It is located about 1.5 km southwest of the abandoned village of

Freiha Freiha ( ar, فريحة, Furayḥah) is a small deserted village on the north western coast of the Qatar Peninsula in the Al Shamal municipality. It is located in the Zubarah region being 3 km north of Zubarah town, and was founded by the Al B ...

. To the north is a series of small hills known as Al Jebailat.

Etymology

Named after a local well, the first constituent of the village's name, "ain", refers to a natural source of water in

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. "Mohammed" was the name of the individual who built the well which supplied water to the village.

History

In 1908, J.G. Lorimer recorded Ain Mohammed in his ''

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'', giving its location as "2 miles north-east of Zubarah". He makes note of a masonry well, 3 fathoms deep, yielding indifferent water, and a ruined fort. ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the

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Archaeology

Rock carvings have been discovered at Ain Mohammed.

Gallery

Former water well in Ain Mohammed.jpg, Site of the Ain Mohammed

well A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. T ...

which the village was named after Ruined houses in Ain Mohammed.jpg, Ruined houses in Ain Mohammed Oildrum fence for a farm in a depression in Ain Mohammed.jpg, Remains of an oildrum fence for a farm in a depression in Ain Mohammed Old Ain Mohammed Cemetery.jpg, Old Ain Mohammed Cemetery.

References

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