Riad or Riyad may refer to:
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Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia
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Riyad, Mauritania
Riyad is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania
Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially ...
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Riad (name) Riad (also spelled Riyad or Riyadh, ar, رياض, ) is a masculine Arabic given name and surname, meaning "meadows", "gardens".
People with the given name
* Riad al-Asaad (born 1961), commander of the Free Syrian Army
* Riad Asmat (born 1971), Ma ...
, a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name, also Riyad or Riyadh)
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Riad (architecture)
A riad ( ar, رياض, riyāḑ; also spelled "riyad") is a type of traditional Moroccan and Andalusi interior garden or courtyard associated with house and palace architecture. Its origin is generally attributed to Persian gardens that spread ...
, a traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden or courtyard
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Hadith Bayad wa Riyad
''Hadith Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ'' ( ar, حديث بياض ورياض, "The Story of Bayad and Riyad") is a 13th-century Arabic love story. The main characters of the tale: Bayad, a merchant's son and a foreigner from Damascus, Riyad, a well-educate ...
, an Arabic love tale
* "Riad N' the Bedouins", a song by Guns N' Roses from their 2008 album ''
Chinese Democracy
''Chinese Democracy'' is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on November 23, 2008, by Black Frog and Geffen Records. It was the first Guns N' Roses studio album since the 1993 covers album ''"The Spaghet ...
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* Radiation and Isotope Applications Division, a
research division of the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
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ES EVM, a series of clones of IBM's System/360 and System/370 mainframes, released in the Comecon countries under the initiative of the Soviet Union since the 1960s
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