Riad or Riyad may refer to:
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Riyadh
Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of the Riyadh Province and the centre of the Riyadh Governorate. Located on the eastern bank of Wadi Hanifa, the current form of the metropolis largely emerged in th ...
, the capital city of Saudi Arabia
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Riyad, Mauritania
Riyad is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, ...
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Riad (name) Riad (also less commonly spelled Riyad, Riyadh or Ryaid), , ) is a masculine Arabic given name and surname, meaning "meadows", "gardens".
People with the given name
* Riad al-Asaad (born 1961), commander of the Free Syrian Army
* Riad Asmat (born ...
, a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name, also Riyad or Riyadh)
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Riad (architecture)
A riad or ''riyad'' () is a type of garden courtyard historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus. Its classic form is a rectangular garden divided into four quadrants by two paved paths intersecting in ...
, a traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden or courtyard
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Hadith Bayad wa Riyad
''Hadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ'' (, "The Story of Bayad and Riyad") is a 13th-century Arabic love story. The main characters of the tale are Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus; Riyad, a well-educated slave girl in the court of ...
, an Arabic love tale
* "Riad N' the Bedouins", a song by Guns N' Roses from their 2008 album ''
Chinese Democracy
''Chinese Democracy'' is the sixth studio album by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on November 23, 2008, by Black Frog and Geffen Records. It was the first Guns N' Roses studio album since the 1993 covers album ''"The Spagh ...
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* Radiation and Isotope Applications Division, a
research division of the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
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ES EVM
The ES EVM (, "Unified System of Electronic Computing Machines"), or YeS EVM, also known in English literature as the Unified System or Ryad (, "Series"), is a series of mainframe computers generally compatible with IBM's System/360 and System/ ...
, a series of clones of IBM's System/360 and System/370 mainframes, released in the Comecon countries under the initiative of the Soviet Union since the 1960s
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