Al Wajh
The Port Behind Aqaba
Portrait
Six Royal Navy ships landed about 550 Arab troops here on 23 January 1917 and took the town from an Ottoman garrison of some 1,300; Faisal arrived three days later, moved his headquarters in and ran the supply line for the march on Aqaba from this harbour. The old town is coral cut from the reefs, with imported timber and carved rawashin, and the fort in its souq entered the kingdom's tentative list in 2015.
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