at-Talh

الطلح at-Talh
at-Talh
Coordinates	17 ° 1 ′  N , 43 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 17 ° 1 ′  N , 43 ° 41 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Yemen
Governorate	Sa'da
height	1920 m
Residents	15,303 (calculation 2012)

At-Talh also at-Talach , aţ-Ţalh̨ ( Arabic الطلح, DMG aṭ-Ṭalḥ , translated: acacia ) is a small Yemeni town in Sa'da governorate . According to calculations, the city had 15,303 inhabitants in 2012. Awareness enjoys the Souk at-Talh, in which, next to the commercial center of Bayt al-Faqih in the Tihama , one of the biggest markets in the country is located.

The souq is a political issue as the majority of the goods traded are uncleared contraband goods from Saudi Arabia . Since the 1980s, the Yemeni government has tried to master this hustle and bustle. Gasoline barrels, salt, coffee, cows, camels and Maria Theresa thalers are traded . Souvenirs for tourists are soapstones ( talk ), often in the form of carved stone pots.

At-Talh is also known as a starting point for mountain tours.

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
• Gerd Simper, Petra Brixel: Yemen. Reise-Know-How, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-921497-09-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Gezatteer Population Data 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Gerd Simper, Petra Brixel, Reise Know-How, Travel and Hiking in Felix Arabia - 2008 , p. 332