Az Zulfi

Az Zulfi is a city in Riyadh Province in focal Saudi Arabia, around 260 kilometers northwest of Riyadh. It is associated by Roads 418 and 535 which both connection with the principle Highway 65 which interfaces Riyadh to Buraidah which is around 101 kilometers by street to west of Al Zulfi. Zulfi additionally shapes a governorate of Riyadh Province. The Al-Yamama/Tuwaiq mountain go starts in the desert toward the north of Al Zulfi.
Amid the Pre-Islamic time the settlement at the site was called zulifit or alkrm', and was apparently established by the clan of Banu Hanifa and Banu tmym. Hajr filled in as the capital of the region of Al Yamamah, whose governors were in charge of the greater part of focal and eastern Arabia amid the Umayyad and Abbasid times. Al-Yamamah split far from the Abbasid Empire in 866 and the territory fell under the standard of the Ukhaydhirites, who moved the capital from Hajr to close-by Al Kharj.
The city at that point went into a significant lot of decrease. In the 14^th century, North African explorer Ibn Battuta composed of his visit to Hajr, depicting it as "the fundamental city of Al-Yamamah, and its name is Hajr". Ibn Battuta proceeds to portray it as a city of trenches and trees with the greater part of its occupants having a place with Bani Hanifa, and reports that he proceeded with their pioneer to Mecca to play out the Hajj.