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Thulaim

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Thulaim
ثليم
Vehicle collision in Thulaim, around 2016
Vehicle collision in Thulaim, around 2016
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CountrySaudi Arabia
CityRiyadh
RegionOld Riyadh
Named afterThulaim Palace
Government
 • BodyBaladiyah al-Malaz
Language
 • OfficialArabic

Thulaim (Arabic: ثليم, romanizedṯulaīm) is a commercial and residential neighborhood in downtown Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located south of al-Amal and north of Margab in the sub-municipality of al-Malaz,[1] situated on the edge of now dried up stream of Wadi al-Batʼha.[2] The neighborhood is bounded by the al-Batʼha Street to the west, constituting its westernmost part in the al-Batʼha commercial area and is today inhabited mostly by overseas workers from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is named after the Thulaim Palace,[3] which was itself attributed to an eponymous farm on which it was built by King Abdulaziz ibn Saud in present-day al-Fouta district in late 1930s.

Owing to its visible furrows (Arabic: ثُلَم, lit.'gaps') during medieval Najd, one historical account suggests that the area might've been referred to as al-Thalama (Arabic: الثلماء) during the existence of Hajr al-Yamamah, which was recorded in a poem by 8th century Abbasid poet Sulayman ibn Abi Hafsa.[4][5]

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  1. ^ مشاريع النظافة، أمانة منطقة الرياض، الإدارة العامة للنظافة(مؤرشف). Archived 2016-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
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