Rawdat Rashed
روضة راشد | |
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Village | |
  Rawdat Rashed | |
| Coordinates: 25°19′10″N 51°21′12″E / 25.31944°N 51.35333°E | |
| Country |  Qatar |
| Municipality | Al-Shahaniya |
| Zone | Zone 82 |
| District no. | 492 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 32.2 km2 (12.4 sq mi) |
Rawdat Rashed (Arabic: روضة راشد, romanized: Rawḑat Rāshid) is a village in Qatar, located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya.[3] It was demarcated in 1988.[4] It used to be part of the Jariyan Al Batnah municipality before the municipality was incorporated into Al Rayyan.[5] In 2014, the village was incorporated into the newly created Al-Shahaniya Municipality.[6]
Located in central Qatar, approximately 45 kilometres (28 mi) from the capital Doha, the village was once of considerable size but lost much of its population due to government efforts to resettle the country's rural population in Doha in the mid-to-late 20th century. The region in which the village lies is extremely arid and, thus, was historically sparsely populated. Previously, the site was accessible only via unpaved desert roads.[7] The Dhal Al Misfir cave is located in the area.
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- ^ "2015 Population census" (PDF). Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics. April 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ "2010 population census" (PDF). Qatar Statistics Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ "قانون رقم (32) لسنة 1988 بتعيين حدود قرية روضة راشد". almeezan.qa. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ "2004 population census". Qatar Statistics Authority. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ^ Hisham Yassin (16 January 2014). "بلدية الشحانية تضم %35 من مساحة الريان الحالية" (in Arabic). Al Arab. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ Jaidah, Ibrahim; Bourennane, Malika (2010). The History of Qatari Architecture 1800-1950. Skira. p. 274. ISBN 978-8861307933.