Al Ḩāffah or simply Ḩāfa is a coastal village in
Dhofar Governorate
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, in southwestern
Oman
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Accessed 2011-05-12. It lies just south of
Salalah
Salalah () is the capital and largest city of the southern Omani Governorates of Oman, governorate of Dhofar Governorate, Dhofar. It has a population close to 331,949.
Salalah is the third-largest city in the Sultanate of Oman, and the largest ...
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History
In 1908,
J. G. Lorimer recorded Al Haffah in his ''
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf'', noting its location as being about 2 miles east of
Salalah
Salalah () is the capital and largest city of the southern Omani Governorates of Oman, governorate of Dhofar Governorate, Dhofar. It has a population close to 331,949.
Salalah is the third-largest city in the Sultanate of Oman, and the largest ...
on the coast, along which it extends quarter of a mile. He wrote:
References
{{Dhofar Governorate
Populated places in the Dhofar Governorate