| Al-Masaniʽ حي المصانع | |
|---|---|
| Neighbourhood | |
 Souq Haraj in al-Masani, 2022 | |
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| Coordinates: 24°34′34″N 46°44′2″E / 24.57611°N 46.73389°E / 24.57611; 46.73389 | |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| City | Riyadh |
| Government | |
| • Body | Baladiyah Al Shifa |
| Language | |
| • Official | Arabic |
Al-Masani (Arabic: المصانع, romanized: al-maṣāniʿ, lit. 'industrial plants') is a historic neighborhood and a former town in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, situated south of Manfuhah in the sub-municipality of al-Shifa. The neighborhood traces its origins to an ancient agricultural village that served as a confluence of Wadi Hanifa and Wadi al-Batʼha and was known for its cultivation of palm groves in al-Yamama during pre-Islamic Arabia. It was also mentioned in Yaqut al-Hamawi's 13th century work Kitāb Mu'jam al-Buldān (transl. Dictionary of Countries). It was incorporated into the burgeoning metropolis of Riyadh during the city's multiple phases of urbanization and expansion in the 1950s and 1970s.
Masani was also a site of conflict in 1837 when Imam Faisal's forces clashed with the Ottomans and the forces of its Riyadh-based vassal emirate during the former's attempt to regain control of the region.
References
- "حي المصانع بالرياض يعج بالعمالة السائبة والحيوانات والطيور النافقة زرائب وأحواش الحيوانات والمواشي تحتاج لرقابة وعناية ونظام". www.al-jazirah.com. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- NA, NA (2015-12-22). Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-81723-8.
- "المصانع.. حينما تتحول الذكريات إلى مصانع عشوائية". www.alriyadh.com (in Arabic). 16 December 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- . St. J. B. Philby The Geographical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Mar., 1920), pp. 161-185 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- NA, NA (2015-12-22). Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-81723-8.
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