Stock Photo: Saudi Arabia: Historic Postern Gate Into Riyadh's Masmak Fortress
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Built around 1865, the Al-Masmak is the birthplace of modern Sa’udi Arabia. You enter through a wooden gate, at the centre of which is the postern gate stormed in 1902 and which still has the metal tip of the javelin thrown by Abdullah bin Jaluwi at governor Ajlan, which buried itself deep into the gate. It could not be subsequently removed without breaking off the spearhead and leaving it embedded there – where it has remained to this day.
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