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Cities, Towns and Villages in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Department of Municipal Affairs, Ruwais, Al-Wahda Club

Cities, Towns and Villages in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Department of Municipal Affairs, Ruwais, Al-Wahda Club

          
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Chapters: Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Department of Municipal Affairs, Ruwais, Al-Wahda Club, Education in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Bus Service, Abu Dhabi International Tennis Complex, Khalifa City, Bani Yas, Port Zayed, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Tower, Zayed Sports City, Sila. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 76. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abu Dhabi - The etymology of Abu Dhabi is uncertain and many possibilities exist. One possibility is that as the area had a lot of aby (antelope, gazelle) it was nicknamed after that. Another story claims that it is named after a man who used to chase antelope, and was named "the antelope man" (in Arabic it would be through the construction "father of the antelope") and then the name caught on for the place. Some Bedouins called the place Umm aby ("mother of antelope"). However, British archives refer to the city as Abu Dhabi and according to books written by Arab historians and poets, the name was first used more than 300 years ago. Most likely, the name was originally Dhu abi, meaning "with/possessing antelope." Dhu was perhaps dropped because it was either deemed too heavy or did not match the idiom of the local dialect. In old times, Abu Dhabi was called milh (Arabic for "salt"), probably because of the salty water. Today this is still the name of an island on the Abu Dhabi coast. Qasr al-Hosn, the oldest building in the city of Abu Dhabi showing the The First Tower (1761) seen from the gateParts of Abu Dhabi were settled in the 3rd millennium BC and its early history fits the nomadic herding and fishing pattern typical of the broader region. Modern Abu Dhabi traces its origins to the rise of an important tribal confederation, the Bani Yas, in the late 18 century, which also subsequently assumed control of...http: //booksllc.net/?id=18950756


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158172092
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 127 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158172095
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 229 mm

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