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Calluna |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Aqaba is a real city in Jordan (at the bottom left corner, on the Gulf of Aqaba ) :
http://www.mideastweb.org/mjordan.htm
I always figured the name was a mix of Aqaba and Agra (city in India where the Taj Mahal is).  |
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persian85033 |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Mariposa79 wrote: |
I know.. It's supposed to be a fictional city in a fictional world., etc etc. In a world that's so big that possibility are endless.
In the movie has different time settings like the invention of fireworks was different from the making of the Sphinx and egypt. That whole sequence in the Whole New World scene was like they were traveling through time. OH! SO THAT's WHY THEY CALLED IT A MAGIC CARPET. heh heh
It was funny during the Bird Stood Still, Iago was talking about a reclining chair that vibrates. And What did they use to light up the palace at night?
Huge oil cans?[/i] |
That's a good question. I noticed that to light Jasmine's room anyway, those things like the one Jafar pulled to get into the secret labarotory seemed to be what was giving off the light. |
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Mariposa79 |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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persian85033 wrote: |
They wanted Agrabah to be unplottable, so it comes up as Aquaba on a map. |
that was like 1st CE on that map. |
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Mariposa79 |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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I know.. It's supposed to be a fictional city in a fictional world., etc etc. In a world that's so big that possibility are endless.
In the movie has different time settings like the invention of fireworks was different from the making of the Sphinx and egypt. That whole sequence in the Whole New World scene was like they were traveling through time. OH! SO THAT's WHY THEY CALLED IT A MAGIC CARPET. heh heh
It was funny during the Bird Stood Still, Iago was talking about a reclining chair that vibrates. And What did they use to light up the palace at night?
Huge oil cans?[/i] |
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persian85033 |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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They wanted Agrabah to be unplottable, so it comes up as Aquaba on a map. |
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Mariposa79 |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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Aqaba, that's what it said on the Parthian Map.
lol * looks side to side making sure no one heard. Maybe the name has been changed for it's protection services* |
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Syera |
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: |
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Aqaba/Aquaba (which spelling is correct?) could easily be from where they derived the name "Agrabah." After all, Q is pronounced pretty much like K, and K ain't nuffin' but an unvoiced G. After that, it's pretty easy to stuff in an R and add a final H for effect. |
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Mariposa79 |
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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My latest research on what I found.
I did some research on my college school library, there's a map of Arabia in the 7th century B.C, it was part of the Assyrian Empire. There's a city in the Gulf of the Red Sea called Eilat and their neighboring city is Aqaba . Sometimes the prenunciations of different languages could be different in English.
The whole Assyrian empire included egypt, Israel, Jordan,Syria, and parts of Iran and Iraq but there were no parts of Arabia.
Later in the 1st CE. In times of Romans ruled the most of the Mediterreanan Sea, Aquaba became the Parthian empire. Cairo existed across the way and parts of Arabia was added on. It was after the 7th century and before the 1st CE. There was a era called the Dark Ages somehow it was talking about a birth of the Prophet.
I noted that Saudi Arabia didn't rise until the middle 20th century.
All resources are
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 7th edition by Sir Norman and others copyrighted 1986
The Arabs : their history and future by Jacques Berque
Could it be? or another legend? |
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Syera |
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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It's not like there couldn't be more than one Hamed in the family line. The Sultan could easily have an ancestor with the same ism as his own.
I really don't see any way possible that the Sultan we all know and love could have founded Agrabah. The city is way too large and developed to be that new. That, and I think it was stated in the cartoon that Agrabah had been at one point under the rule of sand witches. |
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Calluna |
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Spike wrote: |
by the way in the series can't remember which episode the sultan appeared in his early days when he was looking for a place in the desert to start his country and aladdin went through some kinda time thingy that made him see what was there before agrabah was done..anyways that was the only episode where they mentioned the sultan's real name which is Hamed and guess what??that name belonged to the real founder of agrabah...but i am not sure if he had a daughter called jamsine.. |
You're thinking of "Lost and Founded"; the founder of Agrabah's name was Hamed, but he didn't have a daughter, at least not at that point. And they didn't mention Sultan's name, at least not in the English version...
In an old reprise of "Arabian Nights" from an earlier version of the script they did say Sultan's name was Hamed, but it looks like Howard Ashman just made that up so it would rhyme. But because its an old version it's not necissarily "canon".  |
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Syera |
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Okay, I've been looking for an excuse to post this.
http://www.emiratespalace.com/eng/main.htm
Check out the pictures. Not a bad little hotel, eh?
Many of Marvel's (writers of Spider-Man, X-Men, Daredevil) comics are set in New York. This is because Stan Lee grew up in New York; it was his home, and thus he was familiar with it. |
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Spike |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Mariposa79, i wasnt talking to you i know what your saying is right,but i was talking on another point,with somone else..but its ok,thanx anyway  |
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Mariposa79 |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Spike wrote: |
whatever....i got you many proofs and you still wanna believe what you want which is not true althought i am arab myself and definitly know alot of of stuff here more than you do ,so its fine with me Aladdin is actully a real historical character in the united kingdom and he used to live in london and disney meant agarabah that was built in the uk loool ..happy now by the way bat man is from krualla lampour  |
Wha? Who are you talking to? The disney movie was based upon a story in 1001 Arabian Nights. It was a chinese folktale that some guy named Richard Burton in England. Put in it his 1001 Arabian Night stories. The post before me is AG's and she was putting it based on the animated series.
the book of 1001 arabian nights and the author.
See ? http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/
I remember when Walt Disney created his movies of fairytales. He wanted us to research more about it if we ever got interested to know more. |
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persian85033 |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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You wouldn't by any chance be able to get some pictures, could you? |
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Spike |
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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whatever....i got you many proofs and you still wanna believe what you want which is not true althought i am arab myself and definitly know alot of of stuff here more than you do ,so its fine with me Aladdin is actully a real historical character in the united kingdom and he used to live in london and disney meant agarabah that was built in the uk loool ..happy now by the way bat man is from krualla lampour  |
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