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Milehah
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Mleiha, also Mileiha or Malaihah (), is a town in the Emirate of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a population of 4,768 (2015), located some south of the inland Sharjah town of Dhaid. It is the location of archaeological remnants dating from the Neolithic to pre-Islamic Arabia and home to the Mleiha Archaeological Centre. Mleiha is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Place details
- Locality
- مليحة
- Region
- الشارقة
- Country
- الإمارات العربية المتحدة
- Population
- 4,768
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mleiha
- Settlement.other_name
- Meleihah Malaihah
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Arabic
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Map of the municipalities in the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE).svg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Mleiha Municipality is in the eastern part of Sharjah's Central Region
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- UAE#Persian Gulf
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Mleiha in the UAE
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Emirate
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sharjah
- Settlement.government_type
- Absolute monarchy
- Settlement.leader_title
- Sheikh
- Settlement.leader_name
- Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi
- Settlement.population_total
- 4,768
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History of Mleiha
- The 'Mleiha period'
- Links to Ed Dur
- The fall of Mleiha
- References
- See also
Mleiha, also Mileiha or Malaihah (), is a town in the Emirate of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a population of 4,768 (2015), located some south of the inland Sharjah town of Dhaid. It is the location of archaeological remnants dating from the Neolithic to pre-Islamic Arabia and home to the Mleiha Archaeological Centre. Mleiha is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
== History of Mleiha == The widespread archaeological evidence unearthed throughout the Mleiha area dates back as far as the Palaeolithic period, some 130,000 years ago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milehah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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