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Historical Heritage

Historical Sites

446 documented sites across the Arabian Peninsula

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Wajra

Makkah Region — Saudi Arabia

One of the finest Abbasid water stations on the Hajj roads, on the Basran route with a main pool forty to fifty meters across, a settling basin, and a fifteen-kilometer channel to Wadi al-Aqiq. King Faisal ordered its restoration in 1393 AH.

Old village / city

Al-Artawiyah

Riyadh Region — Saudi Arabia

Al-Artawiyah was among the first Ikhwan settlement hijras under King Abdulaziz — wells on a caravan road turned social–political hub.

Trade route

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Wadi al-Qura

AlUla — Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

Wadi al-Qura — a trade route in AlUla.

Archaeological

Jurash of Asir

Asir Region — Saudi Arabia

Jurash of Asir — a archaeological in Saudi Arabia.

Old village / city

The Qarmatian State in al-Ahsa (Hajar)

Al-Ahsa — Eastern Region — Saudi Arabia

The Qarmatian State in al-Ahsa (Hajar) — a old village / city in Al-Ahsa.

Archaeological

Urwah ibn al-Zubayr Palace

Medina — Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

Urwah ibn al-Zubayr Palace — a archaeological in Medina.

Old village / city

Baljurashi

Al-Bahah Region — Saudi Arabia

Baljurashi in Al-Bahah holds stone highland quarters — Sarawat village-and-market life in southwest Arabia.

Old village / city

Al-Hanakiyah

Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

Al-Hanakiyah east of Madinah (ancient Batn Nakhl) joins rock art with a First Saudi State battle memory.

Palace / fortress

Bin Ruqush Palace

Al-Bahah Region — Saudi Arabia

Bin Ruqush Palace — a palace / fortress in Saudi Arabia.

Disputed location

Ancient al-Yamamah

Riyadh — Riyadh Region — Saudi Arabia

Ancient al-Yamamah — a disputed location in Riyadh.

Religious

Masjid al-Jumu'ah

Medina — Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

Masjid al-Jumu‘ah in Madinah marks the place of the Prophet’s first Friday prayer after the Hijra — also known as the Mosque of Banu Salim.

Old village / city

Fadak

Khaybar — Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

Fadak — a old village / city in Khaybar.

Historical market

Wadi al-Qura and the market of Qurh

AlUla — Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

A fertile valley south of AlUla whose market city of Qurh (al-Mabiyat) flourished from pre-Islamic times through the early Islamic centuries.

Local heritage

Faifa Mountains

Saudi Arabia

Faifa Mountains in Jazan are famed for terraced farms, round houses and local dialect — often called a land of hanging gardens.

Local heritage

Aja Mountains

Hail — Hail Region — Saudi Arabia

Jabal Aja west of Hail is a granite range — among Najd’s highest mountains and a defining landmark of Hail’s landscape and lore.

Archaeological

Jabal Sala'

Medina — Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

Jabal Sala‘ west of the Prophet’s Mosque was part of Madinah’s defensive topography in the Battle of the Trench.

Palace / fortress

Tarout Castle

Eastern Region — Saudi Arabia

Tarout Castle crowns Tarout Island’s tell in Qatif — deep Gulf settlement layers under a later coastal defence role.

Poetic / literary

Burqat Thahmad

Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia

A place named in the opening verse of Tarafa ibn al-Abd's mu'allaqah. Burqah denotes shimmering, stone-mixed ground, while Thahmad remains a disputed toponym among classical geographers.

Historical event site

Dhahran and Dammam Well No. 7

Eastern Region — Saudi Arabia

Dhahran and Dammam Well No. 7 — a historical event site in Saudi Arabia.

Religious

Jawatha Mosque

Al-Ahsa — Eastern Region — Saudi Arabia

Jawatha Mosque in al-Ahsa is linked to Banu Abd al-Qays and early Islam in eastern Arabia, within the UNESCO oasis cultural landscape.

Local heritage

Marat

Riyadh Region — Saudi Arabia

A historic Washm town predating Islam and flourishing in early Islam, set between the red mountain of Kumayt and the archaeological depression of Jafra Kumayt, and noted by Yaqut al-Hamawi as among the principal villages of Washm before Shaqra and Ushayqir rose to prominence.

Hajj route

Wadi Mullul

Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

A principal rest stop on the Prophetic Hajj route about twelve miles from Dhu al-Hulayfah. A sound hadith records that the Prophet performed cupping at Mullul while in ihram, and field surveys have revealed the remains of a large garrison fort and shops.

Local heritage

Harrat Lunayyir

Madinah Region — Saudi Arabia

A volcanic field in Tabuk Province that gained global attention in 2009 when an exceptional earthquake swarm of more than thirty thousand events, the largest measuring 5.7 magnitude, prompted the evacuation of al-Ays and produced a ten-kilometer surface crack from dyke intrusion.

Hajj route

Ma'dan al-Naqra

Qassim Region — Saudi Arabia

An Abbasid Hajj station also known as al-Jufniyya, marked by a historic economic rivalry with neighboring Ma'dan al-Qurashi that produced two parallel routes. In 604 AH the catastrophe known as Sadr Jahannam claimed more than five thousand pilgrims in a single season.