Thulaim () 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
Baladiyah Al Malaz (also Al-Malaz; ar, بلدية الملز), in English as the Al-Malaz Sub-Municipality, is an urban baladiyah and one of 14 sub-municipalities of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Besides the eponymous neighborhood after which it is ...
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مؤرشف). situated on the edge of now dried up stream of
Wadi al-Batʼha. 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, 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 () during medieval
Najd
Najd ( ar, نَجْدٌ, ), or the Nejd, forms the geographic center of Saudi Arabia, accounting for about a third of the country's modern population and, since the Emirate of Diriyah, acting as the base for all unification campaigns by the H ...
, one historical account suggests that the area might've been referred to as al-Thalama () during the existence of
Hajr al-Yamamah
Hajr ( ar, حَجْر, Ḥajr), also known as Hajr al-Yamamah ( ar, حَجْر اليَمامَة, Ḥajr al-Yamāmah) or Khadra Hajr, was an ancient settlement founded by the Hanifites that roughly emerged in 5th century pre-Islamic Arabia and ...
, which was recorded in a poem by 8th century Abbasid poet
Sulayman ibn Abi Hafsa.
References
Neighbourhoods in Riyadh
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