at-Tawīla
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Arabic الطويلة, DMG aṭ-Ṭawīla at-Tawīla |
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| Coordinates | 15 ° 30 ′ N , 43 ° 44 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Yemen | ||
| al-Mahwit | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | YE-MW | ||
| height | 2650 m | ||
| Residents | 70,710 (calculation 2012) | ||
 at-Tawīla
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At-Tawīla (translated: “the long one”; also: at Tawilan , Tawila , Tawilah ; Arabic الطويلة, DMG aṭ-Ṭawīla ) is a small Yemeni town in al-Mahwit Governorate . The city divides the route between Shibam Kaukaban and al-Mahwit and is located on a mountain 2650 meters above sea level. The state capital Sanaa is about 70 km southeast.
The city is surrounded by terraced landscapes and is built almost entirely from natural stone. Quarries in the immediate vicinity provide the building material. The quarries themselves were often used as construction pits . at-Tawīla is of economic importance as a collection and loading point for coffee . The coffee from the area is made ready for shipment to the ports on the Red Sea . There is a weekly market on Sundays.
The souq became famous in 1987 when it was partially faithfully reproduced on the occasion of a much-noticed Yemen exhibition in the Munich Ethnological Museum . Fortifications from the time of the first Ottoman invasion (1537–1636) rise on two of the five rocks . Parts of the facilities were destroyed at the beginning of the 20th century.
Just like Sanaa and Thula , at-Tawīla has hijra status, based on the emigration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina and his arrival in Qubāʾ on 12 Rabīʿ al-awwal = September 24, 622.
A large boulder stands out of town, which has been hollowed out so much over time that it can provide shelter. It occasionally serves as a shelter for African immigrants when they are staying in the area on their transit.
Surrounding area
The surrounding area is one of the spectacular landscapes of Yemen with deeply cut valleys. The mountain world is very inaccessible because it is impassable. The western mountainous region forms a natural cultural boundary between the mountainous and lowlands, with which the population found protection from invading enemies. It is thanks to these circumstances that the tribal society in the highlands developed autochthonously over centuries.
In order to be able to obtain agricultural products from the rare fertile soils, the population has always been dependent on terraced agriculture. For this purpose, species-rich dry forests have been cleared since ancient times . Succulent euphorbias have established themselves as natural vegetation . Coffee can be grown where the valleys spread.
literature
- Gerd Simper, Petra Brixel: Yemen. Reise-Know-How, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-921497-09-4
- Horst Kopp (Editor): Regional Geography Yemen , Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden, 2005, ISBN 3-89500-500-2 .
- Günter Meyer: Labor emigration, internal migration and economic development in the Yemen Arab Republic: 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
- 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
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Gezatteer population data for the al-Mahwit governorate ( Memento of the original dated 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.
- ↑ Brief information
- ↑ Charles + Patricia Aithie, Yemen: jewel of Arabia
- ^ A b Daniel McLaughlin, Yemen: the Bradt travel guide
- ^ Yemen exhibition, Munich 1987
- ↑ Horst Kopp (editor): Geography of Yemen , Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden, 2005, ISBN 3-89500-500-2 . Pp. 36-37.
