Dictionary of Place Names and Locations Set of 3, Hardcover Book, By: Muhammad Issa Qandil

A historical geographical dictionary, which deals with different geographical locations and locations in the United Arab Emirates, including: cities and villages, plains and mountains, islands and sinkholes, lectures and popular areas, mosques and ancient houses, wells and dams, ports and lagoons.etc. The collector arranged the content according to the alphabetical system, and he derived the book’s material from several main sources: from his field visits to different regions in the Emirates, from books and magazines that dealt with the state’s external and internal affairs, from periodicals and reports, and from interviews with some elderly statesmen, and from newspapers Daily, geographical exclusions in governmental, historical and geographical sites, and from some geographical dictionaries for places in the country. He gave many of what was mentioned of these places and bekaa a historical character, in addition to explaining some of the terms and words used by the people of the Emirates in naming places, bekaa and sites; The dictionary came as a comprehensive historical geography in its three parts.