The barīd (Arabic: بريد, often translated as "the postal service") was the state-run courier service of the Umayyad and later Abbasid Caliphates. A major...
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Little Petra (redirect from Siq al-Barid)
Little Petra (Arabic: البتراء الصغيرة, al-batrā aṣ-ṣaġïra), also known as Siq al-Barid (Arabic: سيق البريد, literally "the cold canyon"), is an archaeological...
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Umayyad Caliphate (redirect from Al-Ḫilāfat al-ʾumawiyya)
Diwan al-Kharaj (the Board of Revenue), Diwan al-Rasa'il (the Board of Correspondence), Diwan al-Khatam (the Board of Signet), Diwan al-Barid (the Board...
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Jerusalem (redirect from Al-Quds al-Sharif)
Authority regional office and an electoral office located in the Dahiyat al Barid neighborhood. The Jerusalem City Council is a body of 31 elected members...
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Al-Barid (Arabic: البارد, also spelled al-Bared) is a village in northern Syria located in the Qalaat al-Madiq Subdistrict of the al-Suqaylabiyah District...
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Nahr al-Bared (Arabic: نهر البارد, literally: Cold River) is a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, 16 km from the city of Tripoli. Some 30,000...
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established, probably by Mu'awiya: the dīwān al-barīd in charge of the postal service; the bureau of expenditure (dīwān al-nafaqāt), which most likely indicates...
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with al-Kazim were Abbas ibn Ja'far al-Ash'ath, governor of Khorasan, and Waddah (or Wadih), who was an official of the postal service (al-barid) in Egypt...
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Arabo-Islamic names derived from Greek. There was also a mosque, called Masgid al-Barid, within the town. Following the large-scale anti-Muslim attacks by Lombard...
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البيضا al-baīḍā, "the white one"), also sometimes Bayda, is a major Neolithic archaeological site a few kilometres north of Petra near Siq al-Barid in Jordan...
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Wadi al-Joz Al-Walaja (part of Bethlehem Governorate and East Jerusalem) Sur Baher Beit Hanina Jabel Mukaber (ash-Sheikh Sa'd) Al-Ram Dahiyet Al Barid Kafr...
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Hammam (section Maghreb and al-Andalus)
bayt al-barid in al-Andalus, el-barrani in Fez, bayt awwal in Cairo, and soğukluk in Turkish. The warm room or intermediate room was known as bayt al-wastani...
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transported to the Jerusalem electoral constituency office in Dahiyat al-Barid. The CEC also said that voters were intimidated by recording the ID card...
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Barid Al Sharq (Arabic: بـريـد الـشـرق, lit. 'Orient Post') was a propaganda newspaper published in Berlin in the period 1939–1944. It was distributed...
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sometimes named after martyrs. Khalili states that a woman at the Nahr al-Barid camp named her baby girl Wafa after Wafa Idriss. Mosques in refugee camps...
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qāḍī Abu Yusuf), postal cubit (al-dhirāʿ al-barīd), "freed" cubit (al-dhirāʿ al-mursala) and thread cubit (al-dhirāʿ al-ghazl). It measured 49.8 cm (19+5⁄8 in)...
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Villardompardo. The changing room (bayt al-maslaj) The cold room (bayt al-barid) The warm room (bayt al-wasti) The hot room (bayt al-sajun) Caliphal Baths El Bañuelo...
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Salamiyah (redirect from History of Al-Salamiyah)
caliph al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, whose dynasty would eventually establish the city of Cairo, and the early headquarters of his father Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah...
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Silatech launched a youth savings initiative in Morocco with Al Barid Bank and GIZ called "Tawfir al-Ghad" (Saving for Tomorrow), with the aim of providing...
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Britannica article "Nabataeans". Jordan Raqmu (Petra) and Little Petra/Siq al-Barid Khirbet edh-Dharih, settlement and sanctuary Khirbet et-Tannur, temple...
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the Buyids, the forms ʿamīd al-dawla, ʿamīd al-dīn and ʿamīd al-juyūsh are attested. Under the Ghaznavids, the ṣāḥib al-barīd (head of the postal service)...
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left the town of Al-Ram almost entirely outside of the fence, with the exception of the southern part of the town, called Dahiyat al-Barid. The Survey of...
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of Tripoli and containing the fortress villages of al-Rusafa, al-Kahf, al-Qadmus, al-Ulayqa and al-Maniqa. Masyaf was later separated from Tripoli and...
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Africa BMCI CIH Bank Crédit agricole Crédit du Maroc Société générale Maroc Al Barid Bank Investment banks CFG Bank Attijari Finances Corp. BMCE Capital Upline...
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مُحَمَّد ٱلْمَهْدِيّ, romanized: Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (Arabic: هَارُون ٱبْنِ ٱلْمَهْدِيّ; c. 763 or 766 –...
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of governor al-Mansur Mahmoud II. However, unlike other former Ayyubid cities, the Mamluks reinstated Ayyubid rule in Hama by making Abu al-Fida, the historian...
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Africa BMCI CIH Bank Crédit agricole Crédit du Maroc Société générale Maroc Al Barid Bank Investment banks CFG Bank Attijari Finances Corp. BMCE Capital Upline...
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the most ugly crimes against women and children in the camp of Nahr al Barid." In May 2009, Zaki suggested that if unity talks between Hamas and Fatah...
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