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City in Al-Jouf, Saudi Arabia
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Sakakah (Arabic: سكاكا) is the capital of Al Jawf Province in northern Saudi Arabia.
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Fortress dating back to the first millennium AD.
Consists of 50 groups of erected stone columns and a number of stone pillars carved from sandstone. It is unclear when they were erected but some historians believe they belong to a temple built in the fourth millennium BC.
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The region is served by the new high-speed north-south railway. However, as 2020, Saudi Railway Company only runs one service per week, an overnight sleeper train from the capital Riyadh.
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