Ta'if was more pleasantly situated than Mecca itself, and their people of Ta'if had close trading relations.
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20 Facts About Ta'if
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The people of Ta'if carried on agriculture and fruit-growing in addition to their trade activities.
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City then went through many exchanges-of-power, but most of the action within these conflicts took place between Makkah and Medina, and Ta'if dwindled in importance in contrast to the two holy cities.
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In 1813, the Swiss traveler and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited Ta'if and left an eyewitness account of the city just after its recapture by the Muhammad Ali, with whom he obtained several interviews while he was there.
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Ta'if noted the destruction of the city caused by the conquest of 1802.
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Ta'if recorded that the population of the city was still mostly Thaqifi.
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Castle and military barracks in Ta'if were repaired by the Ottomans in 1843, a – mansion for government business – was built in 1869, and a post office was established sometime later.
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Ta'if had under him a force of 3,000 soldiers and 10 pieces of mountain artillery.
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Ta'if then cut the telegraph wires to the city and took the offensive.
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Ta'if remained a part of the Kingdom of Hejaz until Abdulaziz al-Saud unified his two kingdoms and consolidated them into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
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Ta'if was still little more than a medieval city when the Saudis took control of it.
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Entirety of the Ta'if governorate is situated on a raised valley surrounded by the Hejaz Mountains to the west and south.
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Ta'if is known to have had many wadis with running water before, suggested by the presence of dams along many of these.
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Ta'if has a hot desert climate, with hot summers and mild winters.
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Historically, Ta'if's economy depended on agriculture and the cultivation of roses, which were traded throughout Central Asia and Transoxiana.
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The Ta'if rose plantation is a complex of rose fields filled with small fragrant pink roses that are distilled into expensive Ta'if rose oil.
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Ta'if was later given sanctuary by his fellows in a small house, which has now been converted into a mosque.
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Shubra Palace is the regional museum of Ta'if, housed in a building built around 1900, which served as Ibn Saud's lodging in the 1930s, and was used as the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia during King Faisal's reign.
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The only major highway in the Saudi Arabian network to pass through Ta'if is Highway 15 which arrives from Mecca in the west, bends around the mountains through Al-Hada, passes through the center of Ta'if, and travels to Abha and Khamis Mushait via Baha and Baljurashi.
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Ta'if is connected to Highway 40 via Highway 267 and Highway 287.
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