Bithnah (Arabic: البثنة) is a village in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), long occupying a strategic location in the Wadi Ham, which is the only natural link to the interior of the UAE and the Persian Gulf from the East Coast city, and Emirate of Fujairah.
Located between Fujairah City and 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 3,000-year-old trade route along Wadi Ham through the Hajar Mountains from the East Coast emirate of Fujairah through Masafi (itself part of Ras Al Khaimah) and Manama down to the desert town of Dhaid and then to Sharjah and the Persian Gulf. It has traditionally been inhabited by members of the Sharqiyin (Al Sharqi) tribe.[1]
^Lorimer, John (1906). Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia. Government of India. p. 60.
Bithnah (Arabic: البثنة) is a village in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), long occupying a strategic location in the Wadi Ham, which is the only...
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...
Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah off against each other, as well as involving the Sultan in Muscat wherever he could. In 1884, he took AlBithnah Fort, a strategically...
important trade route, the Wadi Ham (which is guarded by the Sharqiyin AlBithnah Fort), through the mountains to the interior and the Persian Gulf Coast...
channel cutting through columnar basalt in Namibia, southern Africa The AlBithnah Fort in the Wadi Ham, United Arab Emirates. The Wadi Shawkah in the United...
AlBithnah Fujairah Al Faqa 2,291 Abu Dhabi and Dubai Al Halah Fujairah Al Hamraniyah Ras Al Khaimah Al Hamriyah 3,297 Sharjah Al Jeer Ras Al Khaimah...
of Bidayah and Sakamkam and the inland village of AlBithnah the strategically important AlBithnah Fort dominating the Wadi Ham. The British had staunchly...
which is in Ras Al Khaimah and traditionally Mazari. The Fujairah village of AlBithnah and its strategically important fort, AlBithnah Fort, is on the...
stone and adobe fort, smaller but architecturally similar to the nearby AlBithnah Fort, also restored as part of the same project. The fort encloses an...
UAE "Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)", Unesco, 2011-06-27 Salama, Samir (2011-12-30). "Al Ain bears evidence of...
the Saudis took the forts of Fujairah, AlBithnah and Khor Fakkan. Sultan bin Saqr was held prisoner at the Al Saud capital of Diriyah, today a suburb...
of Sharjah. However, he expanded his influence over the area, taking AlBithnah Fort in a move which was to support his eventual declaration of independence...
Fort is close to the Fujairah Free Zone, to the east. Other local forts: AlBithnah Fort Fujairah Fort "Fujairah Map", www.fujairahtourism.ae, UAE: Fujairah...
mysteries of Saruq Al Hadid. In smaller numbers, these have been found elsewhere in the UAE and Oman, specifically at Qusais, Rumailah, Bithnah, Masafi and Salut...
Wadi Suq and Iron Age discoveries were made in the mountain village of Bithnah in Fujairah, first excavated by the Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for...
beehive shaped tombs and Jemdet Nasr pottery, from 3200 to 2600 BCE; the Umm Al-Nar period from 2600 to 2000 BCE; the Wadi Suq Culture from 2000 to 1300 BCE...
have been made bearing snake symbols in Bronze Age sites at Rumailah, Bithnah and Masafi. Most of the depictions of snakes are similar, with a consistent...
have been made bearing snake symbols in Bronze Age sites at Rumailah, Bithnah and Masafi. Most of the depictions of snakes are similar, with a consistent...
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