el-marwah

Updated: April 30, 2025

And the produce of the "diggings" would naturally gravitate to El-Bada, the great commercial station upon the Nabathaan "Overland." Thus El-Marwah would signify "the Place of Maru," or "Quartz-land," even as Ophir means "Red Land."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

I must, however, beg the reader to tarry with me awhile. The next march to the north will show him what I verily believe to be the old gold-mine lying around El-Marwah. It acquires an especial interest from being the northernmost known to the mediaeval geographers. And now for our march.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

The immediate objective of this, our last march, was the Bada plain, of which we first heard at Shaghab. I purposed subsequently to collect specimens of a traditional coal-mine, to which his Highness the Viceroy had attached the highest importance. Then we would march upon the Mochoura of the ancients, the mediaeval El-Marwah or Zu Marwah, the modern Marwat-cum-Aba'l-Maru.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2