Bayt Hanbas

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Bayt Hanbas
بيت حنبص
Village
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Bayt Hanbas
Location in Yemen
Coordinates: 15°15′54″N44°08′44″E / 15.26496°N 44.14561°E / 15.26496; 44.14561 [1]
CountryFlag of Yemen.svg Yemen
Governorate Sanaa
District Bani Matar
Elevation
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9,245 ft (2,818 m)
Time zone UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time)

Bayt Hanbas (Arabic : بيت حنبصBayt Ḩanbaş) is a village in Bani Matar District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. [1] [2] It is located above the Qa al-Nahim plain, in the mountains southwest of Sanaa. [2]

History

According to the 10th-century writer al-Hamdani, Bayt Hanbas is named after one Ḥanbaṣ b. Yuʽfir Dhī Yahar, of the tribe of Himyar. [2] Al-Hamdani described Bayt Hanbas as once having been the site of at least one great palace, which had been destroyed by the Qarmatians in 908 CE (295 AH). [2] No traces of the palace exist today. [2] Later, during the 13th and 14th centuries, Bayt Hanbas served as a minor stronghold of the Banu Shihab tribe. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Geonames.org. Bayt Ḩanbaş" . Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Wilson, Robert T.O. (1989). Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen. Germany: Georg Olms AG. pp. 147–48. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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