Halat Um al-Baidh

Halat Um al-Baidh (Arabic: حالة أم البيض) is a ghost town in the island of Sitra, Bahrain. The area was inhabited by 150 Sunni Arabs in 1905,[1] many of whom died in the late 1910s as a result of the smallpox epidemic which killed most of Sitra's native inhabitants (whom were predominantly Sunni).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia: Bahraini 1905 census
  2. ↑ ويثيقة جذور العائلة الستري العتبي للشيخ عذبي بن جلوي الستري

Coordinates: 26°09′29″N 50°36′58″E / 26.158°N 50.616°E / 26.158; 50.616


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