Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Ramzi bin al-Shibh | Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi | Osama Bin Laden | Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Death of Osama bin Laden | Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum | Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan | Ich bin ein Berliner | Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi | Bae Soo-bin | Wu Bin | Wee Bin & Co. | Turki bin Faisal Al Saud | Sultan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | Said Ali bin Said Omar of Grande Comore | Qaboos bin Said al Said | Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad | Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad | Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences | Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa | Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa | Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi | Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Bin bag | Al-Waleed bin Talal | Adnan bin Saidi |
According to this tale, Yanko bin Madyan (the name has its origin in a misspelling and or misreading in the Ottoman Turkish writing of the word ‘Nikomedian’) decided to build the city on a ‘wedge shaped’ plot of land, triangled between two sea arms.