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Umm Tina (well)

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Umm Tina (Arabic: أُمّ تِينَة, romanizedUmm Tīna, lit.'mother of the fig tree'), also called Biʾir al-ʿUmrānī (Arabic: بِئر العُمرانِي), was among the most crucial and ancient wells in the former Migrin neighborhood of present-day Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.[1] It was called Umm Tina because a huge fig-tree standing next to it. It was frequently mentioned in several poems and historical documents from 18th and 19th centuries.[2]

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  1. ^ "موضع أم تينة بين الوثيقة والقصيدة". www.al-jazirah.com. 2020-12-07. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  2. ^ خالد, السليمان العنقري (2012). معجم مدينة الرياض (in Arabic). Riyadh: مطابع دار طيبة. p. 165.