'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. II' [‎1093] (136/688)

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LA'ALAH—
A canal belonging to, and a muqakCah near, the Majar-al-Kabir canal {q.v.) in 'IrSq.
---Ilea hamlet in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Miyah {q.v.) in the Hasa district of eastern Arabia.
LABAKHAH ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. )—
A valley in western Hadhramaut. in Lower Aulaki country, a few miles south of
Yashbum.— {Bury, 1899.)
LABAN (Jabal)—
A hill near the fort at Nakhl {q.v.) in the western Hajar district of the 'Oman Sultanate
LA'BAN—
A hamlet in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sarain, one of the two valleys which by their junction form Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mijlas {q.v.) in the Masqat district of the 'Oman Sultanate.
lab A ni—
A small village on the right bank of the Shatt-al-'Arab {q.v.) between Basrah and
Muhammarah.
LABAS—
One of the fortified towers of the town of Nisab {q.v.) in western Hadhramaut.
LABBAN—
A station on the Hejaz railway {q.v.) 248-9 kilometres south of Damascus.
LABlBAH—
A plain with grazing, in the principality of Kuwait upon the sea coast. ^ Its northern
boundary being the Maqta' stream, it may be reckoned a part of the Sudah district.
It is bounded on the south by the 'Amudah hill.
LABRAQAH—
A camping ground in the interior of Qatar {q.v.) in eastern Arabia.
LABTALAH (J abal)—
An isolated hill in the Hasa district {q.v.) of eastern Arabia.
LAFFAN (R as)—
A cape on the east side of Qatar {q.v.) on the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
laffan (R as)—
A capo three miles to the north-east of Abu Dhabi, on the west coast of the 'Oman
Promontory. It is a low point on the north side of the entrance to a khor which leads
southward and joins a great backwater southward of Abu Dhabi town. Baghlahs
belonging to Abu Dhabi are hauled up in this khor.
LAGAIT—
A camping ground in north-eastern Arabia, on the usual land route between Basrah
and Nasirlyah. It is situated close to the khor at a point roughly half-way between
those two places. There is no village at Lagait, but it is a convenient halting place
with, of course, an unlimited water supply from the khor.
Lagait railway station is 72 miles from Basrah (Makina).
LAGHF-AN-NAFUD—
A halting place, in central Arabia, on the Darb Zuhaidah ; it lies on the edge of tho
great Nafud desert, rather more than 60 miles by road east-north-east from HaU.