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Thaqban

Coordinates: 15°26′23″N 44°08′55″E / 15.43982°N 44.1487°E / 15.43982; 44.1487
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Thaqban
ثقبان
Village
Thaqban is located in Yemen
Thaqban
Thaqban
Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 15°26′23″N 44°08′55″E / 15.43982°N 44.1487°E / 15.43982; 44.1487[1]
Country Yemen
GovernorateSanaa
DistrictHamdan
Elevation7,454 ft (2,272 m)
Time zoneUTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time)

Thaqban (Arabic: ثقبان Thaqbān) is a village in Bani al-Harith District of Amanat al-Asimah Governorate, Yemen.[1] It is located just south of the point where the Wadi Zahr opens out onto the Sanaa plain.[2] It is part of the 'uzlah of Qaryat al-Qabil.[2]

Name and history

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The 10th-century writer al-Hamdani related a legend about the village of Thaqban in his Iklil and wrote that Thaqban takes its name from one Thaqban b. Nawf b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Geonames.org. Thaqbān". Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Wilson, Robert T.O. (1989). Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen. Germany: Georg Olms AG. pp. 111, 345. Retrieved 5 March 2021.