Ibrahim Alluhedan

Al-Aflaj is one of the twenty governorates of the Riyadh region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And its base is the city of Laila. Al-Aflaj is located more than 300 km from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and it consists of a group of agricultural villages located on Jabal Tuwaiq (formerly Jabal Al-Arid) starting from its eastern foot to its western edge.

Etymology

The reason for naming the aflaj is due to the word falaj, which is one of the aflaj and the falaj is the running water from the waterhole automatically.

History

In the past, the area was called Falaj and sometimes Falaj Al Falaj, and it was one of the most important urban centers in the island and contained an important commercial market. Most of the inhabitants of the region were from Bani Kaab from Bani Amer, who are the tribes of Jada and Al-Huraish, and before them Bani Aqil, and the region was prosperous until the fourth century AH. It is believed that Laila Al-Amereya and Qais Bin Al-Mallouh were among the people of this region, especially because of the presence of the mountain of Topad in it, which is the mountain that Ibn Al-Malluh often mentions in his poetry. . The state of the region was later reversed, overshadowed by poverty, internal strife, and insecurity. The Persian traveler Nasir Khusraw visited her in the fifth century AH and described it accurately, where he spent a few months, and described the misery of her condition.

The city of Al-Aflaj is as old as time and was called (Al-Falaj) due to the large number of waterhole and water in it, as it includes seventeen waterhole, some of which are from the largest waterholes in the Arabian Peninsula. Its flow was flowing with its rivers flowing, and a part of the area is still called Al-Seeh, located north of Al-Ayoun, and it is full of palm trees and plantations.

Aflaj princes

• In the year 1253 AH, Imam Faisal bin Turki Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Jalajil was appointed prince of the Aflaj.
• In the year 1262 AH, Imam Faisal Hassan bin Mashari bin Ayyaf was appointed prince of the Aflaj.
• Then Muhammad bin Uthaymeen came after him from the Hotat Bani Tamim.
• Then Abdullah bin Abdul Hadi came from the Riyadh.
• In the year 1303 AH, Ibn Rashid appointed his first prince on Al-Aflaj named Ibrahim bin Jabr Al-Fadoul.
• In the year 1113 AH, Ibn Rashid Freeh bin Abdullah was appointed prince of the Aflaj, and he was from Hail, where he remained in the emirate until the year 1318 AH.

Administrative districts

The villages

• Northern Badi
• Southern Badi
• Hadar
• the Red
• Wasit
• Ghil
• curtain
• Nursery
• Al Seeh
• Anarchism
• Amar
• The legend
• Kindergarten
• Youngness
• The Prophet
• Sweden
• Rizeqiya
• Marwan
• The wheel
• Amar
• Juiva
  

Geography

Al-Aflaj is located in the Riyadh region located in Najd, the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, on an area of 54 120 km2. A paved road passes through the temple that connects the city of Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to the Asir region to the south, and the base of the aflaj ((night city)) away from the city of Riyadh by about 300 km. It is bordered to the north by Hotat Bani Tamim, the fire to the northwest, the exit to the northeast, the Quwaiyya governorate to the west, the Al-Sulayyil area to the south, and the eastern region to the east. It is located between the circles of 45.20 degrees and 23.15 degrees north of the equator, and between the longitude 45.15 degrees and 48.12 degrees east of the "Greenwich" line.

The climate

The aflaj climate prevails in the summer, the temperatures rise and in the winter it gets very cold. The rains are few and they fall in the winter and spring.

Population

The Governorate has a population of 68.201 thousand people.

Economy

Aramco discovered many oil and gas fields in Al-Aflaj governorate in several places in the north, middle, east and east, and in commercial quantities, as well as scientific competencies and human cadres in Al-Aflaj province and known for the consolidation of science and education in its people since ancient times, it brought out a lot of judges, scientists, academics, businessmen and patrons who They contributed not only to the progress of the province and its prosperity, but also to the Kingdom's progress and prosperity as a whole. Al-Aflaj Governorate has a distinguished geographical location that was one of the reasons for its strength and distinction in economic and commercial life in ancient and modern times.

In the past

It was a passage for commercial caravans heading to the south of the Arabian Peninsula, the "Falaj Market" was shopping by the Arabs hundreds of years ago, as mentioned by ancient historians such as Al-Hamdani, and the abundance of its water, streams, and aflaj, meaning its small rivers, made it distinctive by planting palm trees and other agricultural crops.

Nowadays

Al-Aflaj flourished in the economic and commercial life, such as trade in dates, vegetables, livestock and commercial goods. The commercial road had a great impact as it passes through it and connects the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "Riyadh" to the Asir region and the sister state of Yemen, which made it live a remarkable economic growth and development in the movement of buying and selling, banks, real estate and others and is still Al-Aflaj Governorate is witnessing steady commercial growth in this era.

Education

There are about 180 government schools in Al-Aflaj, and two colleges belonging to Prince Sattam University, namely: the Community College and the College of Sciences and Humanities and offer a number of diploma and undergraduate programs

Monuments and tourist attractions

Al-Aflaj area has many ancient villages and ancient palaces, so that a valley or plain is almost empty of a built palace or an impenetrable fortress adjacent to palm trees and trees or a large integrated village. These palaces are still widespread in the valleys and among the ancient monuments:

The mountain of Toubad, which is located at the borders of the center of Al-Ghail and is about 35 km away from Leila, which is a mountain that immortalized the memory of Qais al-Majun and made it a symbol of his story with Leila, and it is frequently repeated by poets: the Toubad Mountains - and they make it a title of chaste virgin love.

• Sada village in the southern Badi, which is about 40 km from Leila.
• Mount Akmeh, it is located near the village of Wasit, about 10 km away from it.
• Murgham Fort, located in the village of Al-Foudhilia, Al-Seih.
• Ordinary palace and connected to a fortified fortress through a trench in the ground.
• Jadda Palace, which is a high military fortress located in the south of Al-Sih.
• Salma Palace is located in the northern village of Badi (Al Aflaj).
• Sobha Palace located in the village of Hadar.
• Popular neighborhoods in the eastern part of the governorate, including (Mubarraz, Al Jaw, Umm Al Thiabah).
• Juha Palace.
• Abu Al Asfar Palace in Al Ahmar
• Cherry Valley is one of the largest valleys in Al Ahmar.

Waterhole Al-Aflaj

Until recently, the region contained seventeen waterhole springs, its source of groundwater flowing under the ancient Yamamah region since ancient times. The waterhole flowed from some of these eyes to form channels that could be used in agriculture, and therefore one of the areas of Al Aflaj is called the Northern Tourist, and the other is called the Southern Tourist. These eyes were similar to lakes in terms of size, as the length of one of them was a whole kilometer and reached in depth to more than thirty meters, but they dried almost all of them in the eighties of the twentieth century after the consumption of groundwater in wheat cultivation.

Eye of the head. It is the largest eye of the aflaj, the area of ​​the eye of Umm Heeb. It was surrounded by the Ministry of Agriculture with a thorny fence.

• The hadar
• Waterhole Ruwais
• Waterhole Al-Batin
• Waterhole or Al-brj
• Waterhole of the Shuwqaibat (or Shuwqib)
• Waterhole of the Am Al-bkr
• Waterhole Maliha
• Am darj
• Al-Fdwal

Sports

• Al-Tawbad Sports Club

External links

• موقع محافظة الأفلاج الرسمي
• إدارة التربية والتعليم بمحافظة الأفلاج
• كلية المجتمع بالأفلاج
• صحيفة الأفلاج الإلكترونية
• مجالس الأفلاج