Bithnah Fort prior to restorationThe square guard tower of Bithnah Fort, facing away from the Wadi Ham.
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 Arab Emirates. The fort has played a significant role in the history of the Emirates, particularly in the emergence of Fujairah as an independent emirate in the early 20th century. With a controlling position overlooking the Wadi Ham, the fort replaced an Iron Age fortification.
Prior to the construction of the metalled road between Fujairah City and Masafi in the 1970s, traffic to the interior from the coast passed through the bed of the wadi, controlled by Bithnah Fort, which has through the ages been a keenly contested strategic holding and was to form a key mainstay in the fortunes of the Sharqiyin through the 18th and early 19th centuries.[1]
^Miles, Samuel Barrett; Miles, S. (1966). The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf. Cass. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-873938-56-0.
BithnahFort is a traditional double story rock, coral and mudbrick fortification located in the Wadi Ham, near the village of Bithnah in Fujairah, United...
important trade route, the Wadi Ham (which is guarded by the Sharqiyin AlBithnahFort), through the mountains to the interior and the Persian Gulf Coast...
Masafi, the village is the site of a significant stone and mudbrick fort – BithnahFort – and a little-known megalithic tomb that links the village to a...
Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah off against each other, as well as involving the Sultan in Muscat wherever he could. In 1884, he took AlBithnahFort, a strategically...
channel cutting through columnar basalt in Namibia, southern Africa The AlBithnahFort in the Wadi Ham, United Arab Emirates. The Wadi Shawkah in the United...
which is in Ras Al Khaimah and traditionally Mazari. The Fujairah village of AlBithnah and its strategically important fort, AlBithnahFort, is on the route...
Bidayah and Sakamkam and the inland village of AlBithnah the strategically important AlBithnahFort dominating the Wadi Ham. The British had staunchly...
where Fujairah Fort is located. Sakamkam Fort is close to the Fujairah Free Zone, to the east. Other local forts: AlBithnahFort Fujairah Fort "Fujairah Map"...
stone and adobe fort, smaller but architecturally similar to the nearby AlBithnahFort, also restored as part of the same project. The fort encloses an exceptional...
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...
Sharjah. However, he expanded his influence over the area, taking AlBithnahFort in a move which was to support his eventual declaration of independence...
same time, 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...
Wadi Suq and Iron Age discoveries were made in the mountain village of Bithnah in Fujairah, first excavated by the Swiss-Liechtenstein Foundation for...
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