Bithnah Fort is a traditional double story rock, coral and mudbrick fortification located in the Wadi Ham, near the village of Bithnah in Fujairah, United...
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Masafi, the village is the site of a significant stone and mudbrick fort – Bithnah Fort – and a little-known megalithic tomb that links the village to a...
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Emirate of Fujairah (redirect from Al-Fujayrah)
important trade route, the Wadi Ham (which is guarded by the Sharqiyin Al Bithnah Fort), through the mountains to the interior and the Persian Gulf Coast...
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Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah off against each other, as well as involving the Sultan in Muscat wherever he could. In 1884, he took Al Bithnah Fort, a strategically...
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Dry fluvial channel cutting through columnar basalt in Namibia The Al Bithnah Fort in the Wadi Ham, United Arab Emirates The Wadi Shawkah in the United...
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Bidayah and Sakamkam and the inland village of Al Bithnah the strategically important Al Bithnah Fort dominating the Wadi Ham. The British had staunchly...
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where Fujairah Fort is located. Sakamkam Fort is close to the Fujairah Free Zone, to the east. Other local forts: Al Bithnah Fort Fujairah Fort "Fujairah Map"...
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which is in Ras Al Khaimah and traditionally Mazari. The Fujairah village of Al Bithnah and its strategically important fort, Al Bithnah Fort, is on the route...
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Masafi (category Populated places in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah)
stone and adobe fort, smaller but architecturally similar to the nearby Al Bithnah Fort, also restored as part of the same project. The fort encloses an exceptional...
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Sharjah. However, he expanded his influence over the area, taking Al Bithnah Fort in a move which was to support his eventual declaration of independence...
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