Qatar Travel Directory http://www.1stworlds.com/%cat_tags%/ en-us The city of Doha was founded in 1850 under the name Al-Bida. The name "Doha" came from the Arabic ad-dawha, "the big tree." The reference is to a prominent tree that must have stood at the site where the original fishing village arose, on the eastern coast of the Qatar peninsula. http://dohatraveller.info/ 5.00