ATALLAH (عطاالله).  Arabic name meaning "a look-out place." (Names and Their Histories, Taylor, 1898)

The Druzes then said, "There is no (true) religion but the religion of the English."  A man named Fares Atallah then came forward, and wished to inquire for information about the leper to whom Christ said, Go show thyself to the priest, and about other things like that... (Missionary Herald, v.46, 1849)

"The history and origin of Toledo is contemporary with the creation of the world."  O'Shea says so, but does not add we are to believe it.  King Tartus established a colony here "por viâ de Ingla-terra."  The Jews named it Toledoth—City of Generations; hence atallàh, in Arabic and Spanish, a place of look-out.  Nebuchadnezzar, Hercules, and Thubal settled down here, but got away in time for "the Archbishop Don Rodrigo to assign the foundation of the city "146 B.C.," and to allow St. Eugenius to introduce Christianity.  The Goth Wamba made the place prosperous and wealthy. (Rambla-Spain, Bell, 1883)