al-Mahwit
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المحويت / al-Maḥwīt al-Mahwit |
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 28 ′ N , 43 ° 33 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Yemen | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | YE-MW | ||
| height | 2120 m | ||
| Residents | 13,008 (2004 census) | ||
 al-Mahwit
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Al-Mahwit (also Machwiet , ( Arabic المحويت, DMG al-Maḥwīt )) is a small town in the western mountains of Yemen . It is located in the governorate of the same name , about 50 km west of Shibam Kaukabān . A dirt road leads through the mountain range to the Red Sea .
The old town of al-Mahwit is located on a castle hill. The development is characterized by light natural stone. The old houses are piled up from stone blocks. Light blue painted wooden doors with traditionally large wooden locks are striking. The window fronts are finely designed with rhombuses and zigzag ribbons, picturesque paintings and carvings decorate the shutters and rain boards.
In addition to coffee and tobacco, millet, qat , corn and vegetables are grown around the city . The city has been a priority area for development aid organizations for years. The fertility of this area earned Yemen the nickname Arabia Felix , which is literally translated as happy Arabia , but meaningful here as fertile Arabia .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Census December 16, 2004
- ↑ Al-Mahwit ( Memento from July 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Hans Becker , Volker Höhfeld , Horst Kopp : Coffee from Arabia. the change in the meaning of a global economic good and its settlement-geographical consequence at the dry border of ecumenism , Wiesbaden (= geographic knowledge 46), 1979
- Horst Kopp (Editor): Regional Geography Yemen , Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden, 2005, ISBN 3-89500-500-2
- Gerd Simper, Petra Brixel: Yemen. Reise-Know-How, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-921497-09-4
- Dietmar Schorlemer, The Al Maḥwīt Province / Yemen: the natural development potential of a marginal tropical mountain region: an ecological land classification based on physiographic soil mapping , self-published by the Geographical Institute of the Justus Liebig University Giessen, 1990 - 156 pages
further reading
- Günter Meyer, Labor emigration, internal migration and economic development in the Arab Republic of Yemen: an economic and population-geographical study with special consideration of the urban construction sector , L. Reichert, 1986 - 318 pages, ISBN 978-3-88226-292-6
