Al-Bad'

Al-Bad'
البدع
Location in Saudi Arabia
Location in Saudi Arabia
Al-Bad'
Coordinates: 28°28′29″N 35°00′53″E / 28.47472°N 35.01472°E / 28.47472; 35.01472
Country Saudi Arabia
RegionTabuk Region

Al-Badʿ (Arabic: البدع [alˈbadʕ]) is a town in Tabuk Region, Saudi Arabia. It is west of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, between Tabuk and the Red Sea Coast. Located at 28° 41' N and 35° 18' E, it lies on the border of the Hejaz, and was in antiquity in Southern Midian.[1][2] Al-Bad is located in the valley of the Wadi Aful in a highland area (218m ASL). It is near the town of Tayyib Al-Ism and approx. 25 km east of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, part of the Red Sea where there are pristine coral reefs. In 1995, 2 people at Al-Bad' died during the Gulf of Aqaba earthquake.[3]

  1. ^ Charloux, Guillaume; Ahmed Sahlah, Samer; Badaiwi, Waleed Ali (January 2021). "Madian revealed? Assessing the history and archaeology of the oasis of al-Badʿ in northwestern Arabia". Semitica et Classica. 14: 97–141. doi:10.1484/j.sec.5.129522. ISSN 2031-5937.
  2. ^ "Al-Badʿ - Archéologie - culture.fr". archeologie.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
  3. ^ Significant earthquakes of the World, 1995 Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine.