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DHA—DHA
Qifafa, but ths anchorage is bad. The village consists o£ a few small houses and
a fort.— (Bed Sea and Gull of Aden Pilot,
DHAB'A—
A railway station on the Hejaz Railway, 173 miles from Damascus It has an
altitude of 2,463 feet; contains a station building and one loop siding, and close by, an
old loopholed stone fort, soms 50 ytirds square, covering a large rain-water cistern. The
pilgrim route passes close to the west, and the country round is undulating and bare.
DHAB'A—
See Ghafir (Wadi Bani)—•
DHAB'A—
A good anchorage on the east coast of the Gulf of 'Aqabah at of the north end of the
Ked Sea, and nearly 12 miles north-eastward from Has Fartak. {Red Sea and Qulf of
Aden Pilot, 1909 ; Hunter.)
DHABA (J abal)—
A hill situated about 23 miles east-north-eastwards from Mukalla, in Hadhramaufc,
Southern Arabia. It is an isolated, oblong, table-topped hill lying close to the shore,
and is a good landmark for making Mukalla from the eastward.— {Red Sea and Qalf of
Aden Pilot, 1909.)
DHABA' (J abal)—
A small hill in North-western Arabia, situated between the Tayma oasis and the
Hejaz Railway. It lies about .fi^e-and-twenty miles east by north from Qil'at-al-
Muadhdham.—( Huber.)
DHABABIHAH (T ribe)—
See 'Oman (Trucial).
DHABAH (A dh)—
A halting place on the caravan route between Yanbo' and Jiddah. According to
native information it is about 35 miles south-east from Yanbo', and consists of a camping
ground with a few huts and a small and indifferent water-supply from wells.
DHABAH (A l B u ) (T ribe)—
See Najaf (Qadha).
DHABAI'AH (U mm)—
See Kharj.
DHABAIBAH—
See Dhafrah.
DHABAIYAH (R as-adh)—
See Qatar ; west side of.
DHABA'lYAH—
A halting place in Aflaj {q.v.). The journey between Badi' and Haddar, which
occupies about 15 hours, is said to be broken generally here. Dhaba'iyah possesses
wells and an abandoned qasr, and marks the division between the hills and the plains.
DH AB ATI Y AH—
A vilage in Wadi-al-Miyah [q.v.), in Eastern Arabia.
DHABA'UN (W adi)—
An important tributary of Wadi Samail {q.v.), in 'Oman. It joins Wadi Samail on
the left bank immediately below 'Amqat. Wadi Dhaba'un contains the villages of
Hamim, Thumaid, and Farfarah.