Miskah

Miskah is a small settlement in the high Najd country north of Dariyah. The two places were known together as the two villages in medieval accounts. Miskah lay amid the protected grazing lands once reserved for animals collected as alms, surrounded by hills including Takhfah, al-Lajah and an-Nir. During the Egyptian campaign against the first Saudi state, Abdullah ibn Saud came to Miskah in 1817 after moving along Wadi al-Rummah. He stayed several days as the guest of its local ruler Nayif ibn Bani, who pledged support and supplied men. The visit placed the small village on the route of an army contending for control of Najd.