Al Murabba (original) (raw)

Al-Murabba (Arabic: المربع, romanized: al-murabbaʿ, lit. 'the square') is a historic neighborhood and a subject of the Al-Malaz Sub-Municipality in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Spanned across 4.88 square kilometers, it shares borders with the al-Wizarat and al-Malazz neighborhoods to the east, an-Namudhajiyah neighborhood to the west and al-Futah neighborhood to the south. Its name reportedly comes from a broken square-shaped dry well around which the Murabba Palace was built and from where latter's name gets derived as well.