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'''Tārūt Island''' ({{lang-ar|جزيرة تاروت}}) is an island in the ] belonging to the ] of ], connected by two causeways to ]. It is six kilometers from the coast, and is the longest island in the Persian Gulf after ], extending from ] in the north to Qatif in the west. The island has an area of 70 square kilometers, and a population (2010) of 77,757. It contains a number of towns and villages, including Tārūt itself, Deyrah, and Darīn. |
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'''Tārūt Island''' ({{lang-ar|جزيرة تاروت}}) is an island in the ] belonging to the ] of ], connected by two causeways to ]. It is six kilometers from the coast, and is the longest island in the Persian Gulf after ], extending from ] in the north to Qatif in the west. The island has an area of 70 square kilometers, and a population (2010) of 77,757. It contains a number of towns and villages, including Tārūt itself, Deyrah, and Darīn. |
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The ancient Arabic name for the place was apparently 'Ishtarut (عشتروت); in the Greek Geographia of Ptolemy it is called Tharrō (θαρρώ); on a map Ptolemy’s Geographia published in Latin in 1578 it appears as ''Tharro''. In the Middle Ages the island was often called Dairin or Daryn, for one of its cities.;<ref>{{cite book|author=Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)|title=The Geographical journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GX4TAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=4 February 2012|year=1946|publisher=Royal Geographical Society.|pages=107–108}}</ref> Darīn is actually the name of its main harbor, and there have also been more modern attempts to rename it Darīn.<ref>See the webpage: , in Arabic, where the question is asked what the name of the island really is: Tārūt or Dārīn. The reply is that it was never historically known as Dārīn, though there have been recent attempts to rename it after the harbor its real name is Tārūt.</ref> The ] was signed on the island in 1915 between ] and the ].<ref>{{cite book |title=International Boundaries of Saudi Arabia |last=Abdul-Razzak |first=S. |coauthors= |year=1997 |isbn=978-8172000004 |page=32}}</ref> |
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The ancient Arabic name for the place was apparently 'Ishtarut (عشتروت); in the Greek Geographia of Ptolemy it is called Tharrō (θαρρώ); on a map Ptolemy’s Geographia published in Latin in 1578 it appears as ''Tharro''. In the Middle Ages the island was often called Dairin or Daryn, for one of its cities.;<ref>{{cite book|author=Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)|title=The Geographical journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GX4TAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=4 February 2012|year=1946|publisher=Royal Geographical Society.|pages=107–108}}</ref> Darīn is actually the name of its main harbor, and there have also been more modern attempts to rename it Darīn.<ref>See the webpage: , in Arabic, where the question is asked what the name of the island really is: Tārūt or Dārīn. The reply is that it was never historically known as Dārīn, though there have been recent attempts to rename it after the harbor its real name is Tārūt.</ref> The ] was signed on the island in 1915 between ] and the ].<ref>{{cite book |title=International Boundaries of Saudi Arabia |last=Abdul-Razzak |first=S. |coauthors= |year=1997 |isbn=978-8172000004 |page=32}}</ref> |
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Archaeological finds indicate that the island has been inhabited since 5000 BC; and it was later home to people from the civilization of ], ], ] and Persians. Later it was occupied by the Persian Empire, the Islamic Empire; it was colonized by the Portuguese and later made part of the ]. |
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Archaeological finds indicate that the island has been inhabited since 5000 BC; and it was later home to people from the civilization of ], ], ] and Persians. Later it was occupied by the Persian Empire, the Islamic Empire; it was colonized by the Portuguese and later made part of the ]. |
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In 1962 when some of the inhabitants of the village of Rabī'iyah were replacing their former thatched houses with buildings of stone and plaster, a man climbing some of the hills looking for stones, they chanced upon a jar, and then discovered a number of graves, which experts later suggested were likely to be Jewish in origin. They also found many earthenware vessels at the same site. At Khārijīyah in the north of Tārūt many clay figurines have also been found.<ref>Mawqi' , webpage; the source given there is: 'Abdullāh Āl 'Abd al-Muḥsin: Min Turāth Jazīrat Tārūt.Pg. 35-36.</ref> |
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In 1962 when some of the inhabitants of the village of Rabī'iyah were replacing their former thatched houses with buildings of stone and plaster, a man climbing some of the hills looking for stones, they chanced upon a jar, and then discovered a number of graves, which experts later suggested were likely to be Jewish in origin. They also found many earthenware vessels at the same site. At Khārijīyah in the north of Tārūt many clay figurines have also been found.<ref>Mawqi' , webpage; the source given there is: 'Abdullāh Āl 'Abd al-Muḥsin: Min Turāth Jazīrat Tārūt.Pg. 35-36.</ref> |
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== Tarout fort == |
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it was built between 1515-1521 by the portuguese, it lays in the middle of tarout island in Al Deyrah village. |
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The ancient Arabic name for the place was apparently 'Ishtarut (عشتروت); in the Greek Geographia of Ptolemy it is called Tharrō (θαρρώ); on a map Ptolemy’s Geographia published in Latin in 1578 it appears as Tharro. In the Middle Ages the island was often called Dairin or Daryn, for one of its cities.; Darīn is actually the name of its main harbor, and there have also been more modern attempts to rename it Darīn. The Treaty of Darin was signed on the island in 1915 between Ibn Saud and the United Kingdom.
Archaeological finds indicate that the island has been inhabited since 5000 BC; and it was later home to people from the civilization of Dilmun, Akkadians, Assyrians and Persians. Later it was occupied by the Persian Empire, the Islamic Empire; it was colonized by the Portuguese and later made part of the Ottoman Empire.
Among the ancient statues discovered in Tārūt is one of a naked man made out of dark grey stone. It was found in the 1950s by a man ploughing his field. It is 94 cm high, and the man is standing in a reverential posture, with wide eyes. It is almost certainly Sumerian in origin, though it is was found about 1000 kilometers from the nearest city of Sumer. It is a very high quality object, but was almost destroyed by the superstitious villagers, who thought it had something to do with spirits (jinn), and so cut it in half and beheaded it. It has been restored and now stands the National Museum of Riyadh.
In 1962 when some of the inhabitants of the village of Rabī'iyah were replacing their former thatched houses with buildings of stone and plaster, a man climbing some of the hills looking for stones, they chanced upon a jar, and then discovered a number of graves, which experts later suggested were likely to be Jewish in origin. They also found many earthenware vessels at the same site. At Khārijīyah in the north of Tārūt many clay figurines have also been found.
it was built between 1515-1521 by the portuguese, it lays in the middle of tarout island in Al Deyrah village.
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