الرَّوضَة is an

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word meaning ''garden'', ''

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'', or

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. It is used in many place names in the

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. It can be transliterated variously as ''Rawda'', ''Roda'', ''Roḍa'', ''Rawḍa'', among other transliterations.

Places

Bahrain

Al Rawda Palace Al Rawda Palace is a palace in western Bahrain. The Palace lies north by road from Al-Sakhir Palace Al-Sakhir Palace, also known as Sakhir Palace, is a palace in the Sakhir desert region of western Bahrain. The palace lies off the Zallaq Highway ...

, a palace in western Bahrain

Egypt

Rawda Island Roda Island (or Rawdah Island, , ) is an island located on the Nile in central Cairo.http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/rawdah.htm Touregypt: Rawdah Island; accessed 02-28-2011 The mamluk Bahri dynasty originally settled on Roda Is ...

, an island on the Nile in Cairo *

Al-Rawda, North Sinai Al-Rawda ( ar, الروضة) is a village in the markaz of Bir al-Abed, in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt. It is a center of the Jaririya Sufi order, with the majority of the population following it (though that might have changed with rece ...

Kuwait

* Rawda, Kuwait, a Kuwaiti

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and a suburb of

Kuwait City Kuwait City ( ar, مدينة الكويت) is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the Persian Gulf, it is the political, cultural and economical centre of the emirate, ...

Saudi Arabia

Rawdah, Medina Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (), known in English as the Prophet's Mosque, is a mosque built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the city of Medina in the Al Madinah Province of Saudi Arabia. It was the second mosque built by Muhammad in Medina, after Qub ...

, an area of the Nabawi Mosque in Medina *

Al Rawdah Sub-Municipality Baladiyah al-Rawdah (), officially the Al-Rawdah Sub-Municipality is a baladiyah and one of the 14 sub-municipalities of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It cov ...

, a sub-municipality of Riyadh

Syria

Al-Rawda, Hama Rawda ( ar, الروضة) is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District Hama District ( ar, منطقة حماة ') is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the time of the 20 ...

, a village near Hama *

Al-Rawda, Tartus Al-Rawda ( ar, الروضة; also spelled ''Rauda'') is a small town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate. It is situated along the Mediterranean coast and just west of the Syrian Coastal Mountains in between Ta ...

, a town in the Tartus Governorate *

Al-Rawda (tell) Al-Rawda ( ar, الروضة) is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in the Syrian steppe, east of Hama. It was a large urban site with city walls and several temples, occupied between 2400–2000 BC. A French–Syrian mission has been ...

, a Bronze Age archaeological site near Hama *

Al-Rawdah (al-Batrounah) Al-Rawdah or al-Batrounah (Arabic: الروضة أو البطرونة) is a Syrian village in the Al-Zabadani District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate Rif Dimashq Governorate ( ar, محافظة ريف دمشق, ', literally, the "Governorate of th ...

, a village in Rif Dimashq Governorate *

Rawda, Idlib Rawda, Idlib ( ar, الروضة) is a Syrian village located in Jisr al-Shughur Nahiyah in Jisr al-Shughur District, Idlib ar, إدلبي, Idlibi , coordinates = , elevation_m = 500 , area_code ...

, a village in Jisr al-Shughur District, Idlib *

Rawda Square Al-Rawda Square ( ar, ساحة الروضة / ALA-LC: ''sāḥat ar-Rawḍah'') is a square in north-west Damascus. The square is the location of the National Security Building, where the Ministry of Defense (Syria), Defence Minister as well as P ...

in Damascus

Yemen

Al-Rawda, Yemen Al-Rawda () is a village in Al Bayda District (), Al Bayda Governorate, Yemen. According to the 2004 Yemen Census, the population of the village was 504. In 2014, the population Population typically refers to the number of people in a ...

, a village in Al Bayda District in the Al Bayda Governorate

Other

* HMS Al Rawdah, a British prison ship {{disambiguation