Thulaim
ثليم
Neighbourhood
Vehicle collision in Thulaim, around 2016
Vehicle collision in Thulaim, around 2016
Thulaim is located in Saudi Arabia
Thulaim
Thulaim
Coordinates: 24°38′28″N 46°43′37″E / 24.64111°N 46.72694°E / 24.64111; 46.72694
Country Saudi Arabia
CityRiyadh
RegionOld Riyadh
Named forThulaim Palace
Government
 • BodyBaladiyah al-Malaz
Language
 • OfficialArabic

Thulaim (Arabic: ثليم, romanized: ṯulaīm) is a commercial and residential neighborhood in downtown Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located south of al-Amal and north of Margab in the sub-municipality of al-Malaz,[1] situated on the edge of now dried up stream of Wadi al-Batʼha.[2] The neighborhood is bounded by the al-Batʼha Street to the west, constituting its westernmost part in the al-Batʼha commercial area and is today inhabited mostly by overseas workers from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is named after the Thulaim Palace,[3] which was itself attributed to an eponymous farm on which it was built by King Abdulaziz ibn Saud in present-day al-Fouta district in late 1930s.

Owing to its visible furrows (Arabic: ثُلَم, lit. 'gaps') during medieval Najd, one historical account suggests that the area might've been referred to as al-Thalama (Arabic: الثلماء) during the existence of Hajr al-Yamamah, which was recorded in a poem by 8th century Abbasid poet Sulayman ibn Abi Hafsa.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ مشاريع النظافة، أمانة منطقة الرياض، الإدارة العامة للنظافة(مؤرشف). Archived 2016-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ محمود, محمدين، محمد (1992). أسماء الأماكن في المملكة العربية السعودية: دراسة في الدلالة وأنماط الاشتقاق (in Arabic). [د.ن.]،.
  3. ↑ الثعلي, عتيبي، إبراهيم بن عويض (1996). الأمن في عهد الملك عبد العزيز: تطوره وآثاره، ٩١٣١-٣٧٣١ ھ/٢٠٩١-٣٥٩١ م (in Arabic). مكتبة الملك عبد العزيز العامة،. ISBN 978-9960-624-19-8.
  4. ↑ Sulaymān, Khālid ibn Aḥmad; أحمد, سليمان، خالد بن (1999). معجم مدينة الرياض (in Arabic). دارة الملك عبد العزيز،. ISBN 978-9960-693-11-8.
  5. ↑ "أحياء وشوارع الرياض القديمة.. التاريخ وثّق الأسماء ل "جيل الألفية"!". www.alriyadh.com. 20 May 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
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