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§00 Houses in the town proper, mostly of mud and stone, but some of them
mere huts; and another 15, stand outside upon lower ground. The place is
defended by a fort called Bait-al-'Awabi which occupies a position of natural
strength commanding the approach from Nakhl. TheJ population is about 2,500
souls, belonging chiefly to the 'Abriyln (120 houses), Bani Kharus (70 houses),
Bani Harras and Dhahul; but there are also some Siyabiym, Bani Bahri and Bani
'Auf. The bazaar contains over 50 shops kept by Arabs of the place. Every avail
able spot in the vicinity is reclaimed for tillage, anl the neat regular fields attest good
husbandry. Dates, lucerne, maize, millet, wheat and barley are the principal crops ;
the palms are estimated at 4,000. Livestock are 100 camels, 150 donkeys, 100 cattle
and 4,000 sheep and goats ; the cattle are of a small hump-backed sort; they are not sent
to graze on the coarse grass of the hills, but are stall-fed on barley, dates and lucerne.
'Awabi is a position of great natural importance dominating as it does Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Bani Kharas,
up which lies the best route to Jabal Akhdhar from the north : it has been perpetually in
dispute between the Bani Riyam and the 'Abriyln, but the political influence of the
'Abriyin, who number 120 households, has generally been predominant. In 1900 the
'Abriyin transferred possession of the fort from themselves to the Sultan of 'Oman,
but in the summer of 1913 it was captured by the Imam. The route called Tarlq-ash-
Shass leads direct from 'Awabi over Jabal Akhdhar to Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tanuf in 'Oman proper.
? AWABI—
A hamlet in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Boshar {q. v.).
'AWABI (Bait-al)—
The fort which defends the town of 'Awabi {q. v.) in the 'Oman Sultanate.
'AWABID—
A tract in the SalahTyah Nahiyah of the ShamTyah Qadha {q. v.) in 'Iraq.
'AWABID—
One of the rural tribes of 'Iraq {q. v.).
'AWABIL—
A village in the Aien Protectorate (q. v.).
'AWAD—
See Dawa^ir tribe; Farjan sub-division of the Al Hasan.
'AWADILr-
One of the numerous canals in the Mamduhlyah Nahiyah of the Hillah Qadha (q*v.
in upper Mesopotamia.
'AW AID—
A coastal village in Batinah (q. v.),
'AWAIJI—
A large tract in Majar-as-Saghlr; see Hammar Lake.
'AWAIMIR (Umm)—
The northern quarter of the village of Jazirat-al-Hamra (q* v.) on an island of the same
name off the coast of Trucial 'Oman.
'AWAINAH (or 'AYAINAH)—
A group of wells in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Miyah (q. v.) in the north of the Hasa district.
'AWAINAH (Najd-al)—
A pass in the eastern Hajar district of the 'Oman Sultanate. The route between
Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tayin and Sharqiyah lies through Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Khabbah, and crosses the Najd-al-'Awai-
nah between the head of the latter valley and the town of Ibra. Najd-al-'Awainah is
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