Qizhn
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قشن Qizhn |
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 25 ′ N , 51 ° 41 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Yemen | ||
| al-Mahra | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | YE-MR | ||
| height | 7 m | ||
| Residents | 10,439 (calculation 2012) | ||
Qischn (also: Qishn ; Arabic قشن, DMG Qišn ) is a small coastal town in the al-Mahra governorate in southeastern Yemen . According to the last census in 2004, the city had 7595 inhabitants, according to calculations from 2012, 10,439 people live in Qizhn.
Qischn has a small airport, Qishn Airport , IATA airport code IHN, ICAO code ODAQ.
history
Qizhn was an important export port for frankincense in the past . The world traveler and researcher Freya Madeline Stark stated: "... from Qishn, 200 to 250 tons (incense, annually). The best incense comes from Saudah, Hadhbarm and Mirbãt, the worst from Qishn."
At the time of the Mahri sultans , Qizhn was the capital of their empire Qizhn and Socotra . The main town on Socotra was Tamrida , today's Hadibu .
Others
literature
- Lothar & Heidi Stein: The inhabitants of the island of Socotra . In: Wolfgang Wranik (Ed.): Sokotra: Mensch und Natur , Wiesbaden, 1999, (= Yemen Studies 10).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Qishn Airport, Qishn, Yemen
- Jump up ↑ Stark, Freya, The Southern Gates of Arabia , J. Murray, London, 1936, Chapter 1
- ↑ EJ van Donzel, Islamic reference desk