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Area code. (+966) 17. Website. www.najran.gov.sa. Najran (Arabic: نجران Najrān), is a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is the capital of Najran Province. Designated as a new town, Najran is one of the fastest-growing cities in the kingdom. Its population grew from 47,500 in 1974 to 90,983 in 1992, 246,880 in 2004, and 381,431 in 2021.
1619. Bir Hima (Arabic: بئر حما) is a rock art site in Najran province, in southwest Saudi Arabia, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of the city of Najran. [1][2] An ancient Palaeolithic and Neolithic site, the Bir Hima Complex covers the time period of 7000–1000 BC. [3] Bir Hima contains numerous troughs whose type is similar from ...
ISO 3166-2. 10. Najran (Arabic: نجران Najrān) is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the south of the country. It has an area of 149,511 km². Its capital is Najran. Najran is inhabited by the Yam tribe. A significant percentage of the province's inhabitants are Shia Ismaili. [2] The current governor of the region is Prince Jiluwi bin ...
Al-Okhdood (Arabic: الأخدود) or Al-Okhdood Archaeological Site, is an ancient and historic town located in Najran Province in Saudi Arabia. Currently in ruins, the town dates back to at least 500 BCE and was formerly a hub for trading and commercial purposes. It is also famous for being the location where the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas ...
A wall in the old city of Najran in Bir Hima region. Al-Ukhdūd (Arabic: الأخدود), formerly known as Raqmat (Arabic: رقمات), is located in the south of Saudi Arabia in Bir Hima/Najrān region, [6] about 1,300 km (810 mi) to the south of Riyadh. Exploration of the city was begun around 1997 by group of Saudi historians.
Saudi Arabia. The Principality of Najran was a state that existed in the Arabian peninsula from 1633 to 1934. It originated as an Islamic ecclesiastic principality under Yemeni suzerainty in 1633, although it later came under Ottoman influence. [3] Najran opposed a Yemeni rebellion against the Ottomans in the 1880s. [4]
Wadi Najran [1] ( Arabic: وَادِي نَجْرَان, romanized : Wādī Najrān) is one of the largest valleys in the Arabian Peninsula, and its tributaries come from the Sarat mountains and hills surrounding the area. It extends 180 miles (290 kilometres) to the east from its mouth in the plains where it ends in the sands of the Empty Quarter.
The existence of a Christian community in the city of Najran in present-day southwestern Saudi Arabia is attested by several historical sources of the Arabian Peninsula, where it recorded as having been created in the 5th century AD or perhaps a century earlier. According to the Arab Muslim historian Ibn Ishaq, Najran was the first place where ...