Najr (Arabic: نجر Najr) is a village in Iyal Surayh District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen.[1] It is located just to the south of 'Amran, on a small hill at the lower end of the Wadi Khuzamir.[2]

History

There are pre-Islamic ruins at Najr. Robert T.O. Wilson identified Najr with the palace of al-Nujayr mentioned by the 10th-century author al-Hamdani as one of the famous structures of Yemen. Najr was used as a military base at the edge of the Bawn during the medieval period, and during the Rasulid era, it was used as a base for a siege against Thula.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Geonames.org. Najr". Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b Wilson, Robert T.O. (1989). Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen. Germany: Georg Olms AG. pp. 328–9. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najr
No tags for this post.