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History of Diriyah

Diriyah developed beside Wadi Hanifah and became the First Saudi State's capital. At-Turaif preserves evidence of its political history and Najdi architecture.

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Image attribution: AlBalad CoralHouses — User:Jpatokal / (WT-shared) Jpatokal at Wikivoyage WTS, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AlBalad_CoralHouses.JPG ; license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . CMS derivative: converted to WebP at quality 85; proportionally resized within 2400 × 2400 without enlargement where needed. Card/hero display may crop to fit; original composition is not retouched. / نسخة CMS: تحويل إلى WebP بجودة 85 وتصغير تناسبي عند الحاجة ضمن 2400 × 2400 دون تكبير؛ قد يقتطع العرض داخل البطاقات أو رأس المقال أطراف الصورة، دون تنقيح محتواها. · License: CC BY-SA 4.0 International — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Historic Jeddah

Historic Jeddah, or Al-Balad, is an urban core on the Red Sea shaped by maritime trade and pilgrimage, with houses distinguished by projecting wooden windows.

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