Dhamar (city)
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ذمار / Ḏamār Dhamar |
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| Coordinates | 14 ° 33 ' N , 44 ° 24' E | ||
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| Country | Yemen | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | YE-DH | ||
| height | 2400 m | ||
| Residents | 118,397 (calculation 2003) | ||
Dhamar ( Arabic ذمار, DMG Ḏamār ) is a city in the central highland basin in Yemen and the capital of the governorate of the same name . It is located about 110 km south of Sanaa at an altitude of about 2400 meters on the connecting road between the state capital and several other governorates.
The name of the city is said to go back to the Sabaean king Dhamar'ali Yuhabirr , who ruled around 200 AD and founded the city. A variety of Sabaean and Himjarite legacies can be inspected. The city was a center of Arab-Islamic culture and science. Its great mosque was built in the time of Caliph Abū Bakr . The intense arms trade in the souq in the old town is peculiar .
Dhamar hit the headlines in March 2011 when around 10,000 people took to the streets to protest against President Ali Abdullah Salih , whose hometown is Dhamar.
The University of Dhamar is one of the largest in the country.
traffic
The city has one airport, Dhamar Airport, IATA airport code DMR.
Personalities
The Yemeni-Israeli singer Shoshana Damari (1923-2006) comes from Dhamar .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Kopp (editor), Yemen geography (2005), Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden, p. 91 (Population figures of Yemeni provincial capitals 2003, calculation by World Gezatteer)
- ^ Daniel Mc Laughlin, Yemen: the Bradt travel guide , p. 115
- ↑ Yemen's police shoot at demonstrators. In: zeit.de . February 2, 2016, accessed February 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Dhamar Airport