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Yalamlam

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “city in the mecca province of saudi arabia in the yalamlam valley”. Today it says “saudi village in makkah province”.
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Yalamlam ( Arabic : يَلَمْلَم ), also known as As-Saʿdiyyah ( ٱلسَّعْدِيَّة ) or Wādī Muḥram ( وَادِي مُحْرَم ), is a Saudi village in Makkah Province , Governorate of Al-Lith, in the region of the Tihamah . Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies . A Case Study for Yalamlam Watershed in Saudi Arabia". Water Resources Management and Sustainability .

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “city in the mecca province of saudi arabia in the yalamlam valley”. Today it says “saudi village in makkah province”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

city in the mecca province of saudi arabia in the yalamlam valley

Now

saudi village in makkah province

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