Ḏāt al-Ḥajj

Dhat al-Hajj was a stopping place north of Tabuk on the Syrian pilgrimage road to Medina and Mecca. A fort and reservoir stood beside the route, supplying and protecting caravans crossing the dry country between the Levant and the Hejaz. The traveller Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi passed through in 1694 and recorded a pool guarded by troops from Syria. The station belonged to a wider chain of fortified halts maintained along the pilgrimage road.