Arwa or Arawah ( ar, عروى, ''`Arwa'') is a village in

Riyadh Province The Riyadh Province ( ar, منطقة الرياض '), also known as the Riyadh Region, is a region of Saudi Arabia, located in the geographic center of the country. It has an area of and with a 2017 population of 8,216,284, it is the second-la ...

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

. It is located in the

Dawadmi Dawadmi or Ad Dawadimi ( ar, الدوادمي) is a town in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. Google Maps spells the name as Al Duwadimi. As of the 2004 census it had a population of 53,071 people. The town is mostly inhabited by the tribe of Banu 'U ...

Governorate, north of the Riyadh-Makkah highway, and around west of Riyadh. The village was established in 1918 (1336 AH) at the site of a water source of the same name, by sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Bin Hindi Bin Humaid Alotaibi. Its population is mostly from the Utaiba tribe. Several sites around Arwa contain ancient

petroglyphs A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

from different historic eras. Some carvings may date back to 1000 years BC. Arwa was the site of the Battle of Arwa in 1883 (1300 AH), where the Rashidis led by Muhammed bin Abdullah Al Rashid defeated the Utaiba and their Al Saud allies.

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Populated places in Riyadh Province {{SaudiArabia-geo-stub