Yarīm

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يريم
Yarīm
Yarīm (Yemen)
Yarīm
Yarīm
Coordinates 13 ° 35 '  N , 44 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 35 '  N , 44 ° 23'  E
Basic data
Country Yemen

Governorate

Ibb
ISO 3166-2 YE-IB
height 2665 m
Residents 46,964 (2004)

Yarīm ( Arabic يريم) is a city in Ibb Governorate in southwest Yemen . In 2004 the city had 46,964 inhabitants.

The city is located in the middle of the Yemeni highlands on a plateau, near the massif of Jebel Sumārah at an altitude of over 2600 meters above sea level. M. During the reign of the ancient South Arabian kings of Himyar (around the 1st century BC to 570 AD), Yarīm was at the heart of their territory. The capital of the Himyar Confederation (110 BC to 545/570 AD) Zafar is just under 15 km south of Yarīm.

In July 1763 the explorer Carsten Niebuhr and his team, which had been decimated due to the consequences of tropical diseases, stayed in the city for a week, possibly with the request to visit the old Himyarian capital Zafar. A copper engraving based on a drawing by Niebuhr shows the village of Menach, part of Alt-Yarim, in which the research group found accommodation.

About 15 km from the city gates is the small mosque of vorarḥah . It dates from the early Islamic period, from the 10th or 11th century AD (depending on the source) and has five raised light hatches similar to the construction of the mosque of Shibam Kaukaban .

Today the city is a stopover on the north-south route from Sanaa to Taʿizz and a local trading center.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Yarīm. In: Encyclopædia Britannica.
  2. ↑ Paul Yule: Himyar – Spätantike im Yemen / Late Antique Yemen , p. 23 ff. + Illustration, p. 26.
  3. ↑ According to Qādī Ismail al-Akwa, the mosque dates from the 10th century; Barbara Finster, The Mosque of Ṣarḥah , dates back to the 11th century
  4. ↑ Ronald Lewcock: Yemeni architecture in the Middle Ages , in: Werner Daum: Yemen. Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, p. 201 f.

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