"Just a 10-minute walk away are the remains of Petra’s grand temple and its colonnaded main street.... The caves occupied by the Bdoul were originally an integral part of a wealthy trading city – the thriving capital of the Nabateans for 500 years before it was annexed by the Romans in around AD100 and eventually abandoned three centuries later.... Officials charged with the management and development of Petra say the Bdoul who still live on the site are there illegally. They contend... that their use of the caves as homes, animal shelters, shops and storerooms risks causing irreparable harm. 'If we want to preserve the integrity of the site for future generations then we have to stop the use of the caves for damaging activities,' said Dr Fares Braizat, the chief commissioner of the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority. '... it is illegal for anyone to live in or use the archaeological monuments within the [site of Petra] for whatever purposes.'..."
2. Forcible entry and detainer lawsuit. Rocket docket. The only issues are ownership of the real estate and payment of rent.
3. These Third World countries need to learn and use the US legal system and, especially, our land registration system. And, of course, the Nebraska way is the best way.
These people are squatters. They have no ownership or leasehold interest.
Best I can determine, the government owns this land and there is no system of land registration.
And forget about adverse possession if there is no land registration system.
An inadequate, expensive or non-existence system of land ownership and registration is a big reason why Third World countries are so poor. You'd think they'd learn from the US.
Google: "The name Bedouin refers to a group of people bound by the Bedouin culture. Bedouin people live in or near the desert and are often referred to as nomadic people. The term Bedouin derives from the word bedu, which in Arabic means "someone who lives in the open," meaning the desert."
It's an open cave... they were alone together. #UnexpectedClinton
There are hundreds if not thousands of inhabited caves within the ancient bounds of the Roman Empire -- on Crete, on Malta, in Turkey. Those Nabatean caves are just a fraction of them and very recent compared to some caves on Malta that date back to Neolithic times. Most are excavations rather than natural caves, though some are both.
Cave-homes make good sense where temperatures are harsh and timber is scare, like Neolithic Malta or Bronze Age Cappadocia, but the site of ancient Petra is a gorge carved out by a permanent river that flowed during the Younger Dryas, part of the same river system that crisscrossed the Arabian peninsula and left the traces of riverbeds, lakes, and deltas that can be seen from orbit. In the case of Petra, it was flooded out several times since the Nabateans made it their capital. Bedouins have taken over the site in recent decades, but they don't seem to realize the historic risks of living there, particularly in caves.
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1. Who owns the real estate?
2. Forcible entry and detainer lawsuit. Rocket docket. The only issues are ownership of the real estate and payment of rent.
3. These Third World countries need to learn and use the US legal system and, especially, our land registration system. And, of course, the Nebraska way is the best way.
These people are squatters. They have no ownership or leasehold interest.
Best I can determine, the government owns this land and there is no system of land registration.
And forget about adverse possession if there is no land registration system.
An inadequate, expensive or non-existence system of land ownership and registration is a big reason why Third World countries are so poor. You'd think they'd learn from the US.
Google: "The name Bedouin refers to a group of people bound by the Bedouin culture. Bedouin people live in or near the desert and are often referred to as nomadic people. The term Bedouin derives from the word bedu, which in Arabic means "someone who lives in the open," meaning the desert."
It's an open cave... they were alone together. #UnexpectedClinton
There are hundreds if not thousands of inhabited caves within the ancient bounds of the Roman Empire -- on Crete, on Malta, in Turkey. Those Nabatean caves are just a fraction of them and very recent compared to some caves on Malta that date back to Neolithic times. Most are excavations rather than natural caves, though some are both.
Cave-homes make good sense where temperatures are harsh and timber is scare, like Neolithic Malta or Bronze Age Cappadocia, but the site of ancient Petra is a gorge carved out by a permanent river that flowed during the Younger Dryas, part of the same river system that crisscrossed the Arabian peninsula and left the traces of riverbeds, lakes, and deltas that can be seen from orbit. In the case of Petra, it was flooded out several times since the Nabateans made it their capital. Bedouins have taken over the site in recent decades, but they don't seem to realize the historic risks of living there, particularly in caves.
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