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	ARABIA,
		Until comparatively recent times knowledge of Arabia was limited to that provided by ancient Greek and Roman writers and by a few Arab geographers; a large part of this material was unreliable.
		The Sabaean capital and chief city, Marib, probably flourished as did no other city of ancient Arabia, partly because it was a focal point of caravan routes between seaports of the Mediterranean and the frankincense-growing region of the Hadhramaut and partly because a large nearby dam provided water for irrigation.
		From the 8th to the early 10th century Arabia was merely a province under the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=201334 (1715 words)

	Arabia Petraea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arabia Petraea, also called Provincia Arabia or simply Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empire beginning in the second century; it consisted of the former Nabataean kingdom in modern Jordan, southern modern Syria Sinai, and northwestern Saudi Arabia.
		Arabia became such a symbol of loyalty to Severus and the empire, according to Bowersock, that during his war against Clodius Albinus, in Gaul, Syrian opponents propagated a rumor that the Third Cyrenaica had defected.
		The province was invaded and conquered by the Muslims under Caliph Umar in the seventh century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabia_Petraea (1367 words)

	UNDP-POGAR: Country Index: Web Links
		Saudi Arabia - Municipality of the Province of [muhafazat] Henakeah [in Arabic]:
		Saudi Arabia - Municipality of the Province of [muhafazat] Tayma [in Arabic]:
		Saudi Arabia - Municipality of the Province of [muhafazat] Yanbu [in Arabic]:
	www.pogar.org /countries/links.asp?cid=16&thid=6 (337 words)

	Saudi Arabia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It is bounded on the west by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea; on the east by the Persian Gulf, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates; on the south by Yemen and Oman; and on the north by Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait.
		The population of Saudi Arabia is 90% Muslim Arab of the Wahhabi sect (a branch of Sunni Islam), although there is a small percentage of Shiites, mainly in the northeast.
		According to the agreement, the Egyptian army was to withdraw from Yemen and Saudi Arabia was to cease aiding the Yemeni royalists.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sa/SaudiAra.html (2407 words)

	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
		In 1997, there was an unexpectedly sharp increase in the number of patients with brucellosis in the Province of Tabuk (north-western Saudi Arabia), a region of seven administrative districts: Hakl, Albedaa, Dubaa, Alwageh, Omlog, Tymaa and Tabuk (the capital), and a population of approximately 400 000 inhabitants.
		Because precipitation in neighbouring provinces was not as great as in Tabuk, shepherds and their flocks (particularly sheep, goats, camels and cattle) were attracted from nearby regions to the grassed Tabuk desert.
		Brucellosis is increasing in the north-western region of Saudi Arabia.
	www.emro.who.int /Publications/EMHJ/0704/epidemiological.htm (2172 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Arabia
		Arabia is that of a central table-land surrounded by a desert belt, sandy to the west, south, and east and stony to the north.
		Arabia was visited by the Apostle, the length of his stay, the motive of his journey, the route followed, and the things he accomplished there are not specified.
		Arabia and settled partly in Syria and partly near Kufa in lower Mesopotamia (Muir, History of the Caliphate, 150; and Arnold, Preaching of Islam, 44 sqq.).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01663a.htm (12364 words)

	Dhahran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dhahran (Arabic الظهران aẓ-Ẓahrān) is a city in Saudi Arabia located in the country's Eastern Province not far from the Persian Gulf.
		It is a short distance south of the larger port city of Dammam, also the province capital.
		Saudi Special Emergency Forces' Eastern Province headquarters are located 1km away from the main gate of Dhahran; however, they do not enter the city unless some serious security issue has occurred (which has so far never happened).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dhahran (3259 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Suqs of 'Asir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the far southwest of Saudi Arabia, the highland city of Abha was once a strategic point on the ancient spice route that linked far southern Arabia—modern Yemen—with the Mediterranean.
		Today, it is capital of the province of 'Asir, whose spectacular terraced fields and soothing, temperate climate provide an unexpected contrast to much of the rest of the country, and which is thus one of the most popular travel destinations within the kingdom.
		The model houses are examples in miniature of what the province's women actually do on a much larger scale: The clean whites and dozens of vivid colors that make the region's homes so distinctive have long been prepared by women.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199804/the.suqs.of.asir.htm (2791 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : In the Alps of Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		All told, some 3,000 plants are found in Arabia, of which perhaps a quarter have their origin in the temperate zone.
		In southwestern Arabia, the drier mountains of the Asir and Yemen have the highest proportion of temperate plants.
		In the lush and well-watered southern provinces of Yemen, the situation changes as temperate plants become less dominant than they are farther north.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198304/in.the.alps.of.arabia.htm (1458 words)

	Saudi Arabia Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Eastern Province is a flat desert plain with a width of 80 km and a length of 1,200 km covering a distance from the north of the Kuwaiti border to Rub’Al Khali in the south which is the largest sand desert in the world.
		Saudi Arabia was an absolute monarchy until 1992, at which time the Saudi royal family introduced the country's first constitution.
		Saudi Arabia was a key player in coordinating the successful 1999 campaign of OPEC and other oil-producing countries to raise the price of oil to its highest level since the Gulf War by managing production and supply of petroleum.
	www.dhahran-expo.com /main/mysh/saoverview.html (565 words)

	Saudi Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It lost part of its territory to the Turks later in the century, however, and was driven from its capital, Riyadh, by the rival House of Rashid.
		Saudi Arabia's terrain is varied but on the whole fairly barren and harsh, with salt flats, gravel plains, and sand dunes but few lakes or permanent streams.
		To Saudi Arabia, the holy cities of Makkah, the birthplace of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, and Madinah, the Prophet's burial place, are a sacred trust exercised on behalf of all Muslims.
	www.arabiancareers.com /saudi.html (952 words)

	Saudi Arabia
		The majority of citizens are Sunni Muslims predominantly adhering to the strict interpretation of Islam taught by the Salafi or Wahhabi school that is the official state religion.
		During the period covered by this report, authorities permitted a greater degree of freedom to Shi'ites in the Eastern Province city of Qatif than in the past, overlooking religious practices and gatherings that were previously prevented.
		For example, in 2001 a judge in the eastern province ruled that the testimony of two Shi'a witnesses to an automobile accident was inadmissible.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24461.htm (4944 words)

	The History of Saudi Arabia
		On September 23, 1932, the country was named the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, an Islamic state with Arabic as its national language and the Holy Qur’an as its constitution.
		One of King Fahd’s greatest accomplishments in Saudi Arabia was a series of projects to expand the Kingdom’s facilities to accommodate the millions of pilgrims who come to the country each year.
		Under his rule, Saudi Arabia provided emergency humanitarian assistance to numerous countries, including Somalia, Bosnia and Afghanistan, as well as countries suffering from natural disasters, such as earthquakes (Turkey in 1999, Iran in 2003) and the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia in December 2004.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Country/History.asp (2797 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Blood Money - Saudi Arabia/United States Timeline \| PBS
		The monarchy's legitimacy is based, in part, on an alliance with the family of the founder of the Wahhabi sect of Islam.
		Saudi Arabia condemns the invasion and appeals to the U.S. to intervene.
		Osama Bin Laden is exiled from Saudi Arabia for his opposition to the Saudi royal regime, which he asserts is illegitimate.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/sauditimeline.html (707 words)

	USGS Open File Report OF99-50-A Red Sea Basin Province (Province Geology)
		The Red Sea Basin Province includes offshore and adjacent onshore areas, from the northern Gulf of Suez (350 km by 70 km) and Gulf of Aqaba (185 km by 25 km) southeastward along the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean.
		The province is a Tertiary cratonic rift south of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula between northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Figure 3a).
		Northwest-southeast length of the province is 2300 km, with a width to 400 km.
	geology.cr.usgs.gov /energy/WorldEnergy/OF99-50A/province.html (1271 words)

	IslamOnline.net - Hajj Mabrur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In Dhaharan, the Eastern Province, the temperature is an average of 26°C (79°F).
		Apart from topographical factors, Saudi Arabia's climate is also affected by tropical winds that cause monsoons in the west and the southwest.
		Saudi Arabia is one of the driest countries in the world, with rainfall averaging less than 127 millimeters (5 inches) per year.
	www.islamonline.net /English/hajj/Services/1425/01.shtml (471 words)

	March 2007 Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia is the largest free market economy in the region and is expected to produce more than two-fifths of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) GDPs in 2006.
		The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the sons and grandsons of King Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud, and that the Holy Qur'an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari'a).
		Saudi Arabia is one of the top oil exporting countries, and Saudi oil export revenues were expected to reach $194 billion in 2006.
	www.export.gov /articles/Saudi_MoM.asp (2594 words)

	Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia Summary
		Although the modern history of Arabia dates from the Saudi reoccupation of Riyadh, there was much history and tradition in the young sheikh's policy.
		Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938, and Ibn Saud through his advisor St.
		Ibn Saud positioned Saudi Arabia as neutral in World War II, but was generally considered to favor the Allies.
	www.bookrags.com /Ibn_Saud_of_Saudi_Arabia (1561 words)

	Independence for Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ibn Saud, whose family was from the central desert province of Najd, put the country together during a reign of over 50 years by combining modern methods of money and force with the traditional technique of cementing relations with leading tribes and clans by taking more than 20 wives.
		Most of the growth, however, came from a much larger immigration of foreign Arabs and other Moslems and some professionals and managers from Europe and America, all of whom are excluded from citizenship.
		The great vulnerability of the Saudi regime that could make it possible for America to stop this flow is that the Wahabis are only a small minority of the population of the EP of Saudi Arabia, from where all their money comes.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2002/04/26&ID=Ar00600 (1161 words)

	saudi arabia map and map of saudi arabia information page
		The founder of modern Saudi Arabia, Abd al-Aziz, captured Riyadh at the turn of the 20th century, and began his efforts to unify the many factions on the Arabian Peninsula.
		The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the largest country in the Middle East, is 95% desert, including the Rub' Al Khali, the biggest mass of sand on the planet.
		Landforms Saudi Arabia is for the most part an uninhabited desert land, which includes the Rub' Al Khali Desert, the biggest mass of sand on the planet, and the An-Nafud Desert - where sand dunes often exceed 100 ft. in height.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/asia/sa.htm (862 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Whither Saudi Arabia's Shiites? by John R. Bradley
		Earlier this month, when Saudi Arabia's Shia voted in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province during the second of three phases of nationwide elections for municipal councils, Shia candidates were returned in districts where there was a clear Shia majority population.
		Where there was not, Sunni candidates, who had the semi-official backing of the Wahhabi religious establishment, were elected, just as their Wahhabi cousins in Riyadh had swept the board a few weeks earlier.
		But the paradox is that, as a result of the insurgency in Iraq and the suicide bombers routinely attacking Shia civilians, the Saudi Shia, rather than becoming more restless, may in fact, at least in the short term, see greater virtue in continuing to support the Al-Saud regime.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17355 (689 words)

	Inside Out Documentaries : Shifting Sands Saudi Arabia with Michael Goldfarb
		Like the U.S., Saudi Arabia is bordered on the east and west by ocean, and like the U.S. you are more likely to encounter liberal society on the coasts rather than in the middle of the country.
		Two of their number are getting married, and dozens of them have come to this indoor facility to fool around and give the grooms a good scrubbing so they are clean for their brides.
		According to Marcel, Saudi Arabia provides only the most limited information to international bodies on where the wealth is spent, making it difficult to estimate how much oil revenue finds its way into the coffers of militant Islamic organizations.
	www.insideout.org /documentaries/shiftingsands/part2.asp (1474 words)

	International Market Research - High Demand for Reverse Osmosis in Saudi Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest producer of desalinated water with 27 plants on the Red Sea and the Arabia Gulf, and the fourth largest in average water use per citizen.
		Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest producer of desalinated water with 27 plants on the Red Sea and the Arabia Gulf, and the fourth largest in average water use per citizen.
		The water sector is one of the most vital for Saudi Arabia, the kingdom is the world’s largest producer of desalinated water with 27 plants on the Red Sea and the Arabia Gulf, supplying drinking water to major urban and industrial centers through out a network of water pipes more than 3,680 km long.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr123012e.html (804 words)

	Western Province (Saudi Arabia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Hijaz.
		The Western Province or commonly called by its old name, Hijaz is the most populous province of Saudi Arabia, located in the west of the country, with an extended coastline.
		This article about the geography of Saudi Arabia is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Makkah_province (143 words)

	The Venue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		DIEC is located in the eastern province in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Dammam; thus, facilitates the access to the home inter – markets and for the other GCC nations.
		Archeological studies proved that the eastern province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was inhabited for more than 5000 years ago.
		The eastern province is a flat desert plain with a width of 80 km and a length of 1,200 kilometer, covering a distance from the north of the Kuwaiti border to the Rub’Al Khali in the south which is the largest desert in the world.
	www.dhahran-expo.com /main/mysh/venue.html (273 words)

	Saudi Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Although Saudi Arabia is a key U.S. ally, it is frequently accused of abusing prisoners; discriminating against women and minorities; and failing to provide freedom of speech, the press, and worship.
		Saudi Arabia is a country whose stablility is threatened by an undercurrent of militant Islamic fundamentalism.
		Seventy five years ago, Saudi Arabia did not exist, today it is a nation marked by sophisticated political, legal, and financial systems, with a culture rich in history and deep in faith.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Projects2003/Ben/RealDeal.html (2939 words)

	ISG - About Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia is a huge stretch of land mass between the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea.
		Jeddah (Western Province), Riyadh (Central Province), and Dhahran/ Dammam (Eastern Province) are the major population centers of the Kingdom.
		The climate of most of Saudi Arabia is very hot in the summer, hot in the spring and fall, and moderate during the winter months.
	www.isgdh.org /htm/about_saudi.htm (865 words)

	Latest Developments: Saudi Arabia's Progress in the War on Terrorism
		Al-Ghamdi, considered one of the top Al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia, is suspected of being one of the masterminds of the May 12 bombings in Riyadh.
		The U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Robert Jordan, described the cooperation of Saudi investigators with the U.S. law enforcement representatives as "superb." * Saudi Arabia has provided extensive intelligence and military cooperation in the assault on Al-Qaeda.
		America and Saudi Arabia face a common terrorist threat, and we appreciate the strong, continuing efforts of the Saudi government in fighting that threat." George W. Bush, President of the United States, July 1, 2003 This is distributed by Qorvis Communications, LLC on behalf of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-10-2003/0002054752&EDATE= (1393 words)

	Saudi Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		All McDonald's restaurants in Saudi Arabia are owned and operated by leading members of the Saudi business community: in Central and Eastern Province by HH Prince Misha'al Bin Khalid Bin Fahad Al Faisal Al Saud of the Riyadh International Catering Co-operation, and in Western Province by Sheikh Abdulrahman Alireza of Reza Food Services.
		Wherever the restaurant is in Saudi Arabia, customers will always enjoy quality food prepared to the highest of standards, and find staff attentive to their every need.
		It is a matter of great pride to the owners of McDonald's in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that their restaurants in Eastern, Central and Western Provinces have consistently won regional and international awards that have reflected high levels of both staff commitment and customer satisfaction.
	www.mcdonalds.com /countries/saudiarabia.html (794 words)

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