At Turbah (alternatively, Turbat Dhubhan) is a town near the coast of the
Red Sea
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in
Taiz Governorate
Taiz () is a governorates of Yemen, governorate of Yemen. The governorate's capital Taiz, the third-largest city in Yemen, is among the most important commercial centres in the country, owing to its proximity to farmland, the Red Sea port of Mok ...
,
Yemen
Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...
. It lies about 75 km from
Taiz
Taiz () is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located in the Yemeni highlands, near the port city of Mocha on the Red Sea, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is the capital of Taiz Governorate. As of 2023, the city has an estimated p ...
and is about 1,800 metres above sea level.
Its population in 2004 was 10,505.
Etymology & History
The name ''Turbah'' in
Semitic means 'ancient cemetery', in reference to the bones of the ancestors mixing with the soil. Various places are named Turbah or Al Turbah. Turbat Dhubhan became known as ''Al-Turbah'' after its urbanization as a regional capital during the
Ottoman era
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Euro ...
.
Karib 'il Watar Campaign
The
Sabaean King
Karib'il Watar
Karibʾīl Watār Yahanʾm ( Sabaean: , romanized: ; 7th century BCE), sometimes distinguished as was probably the most important ruler of the early days of the Sabaean Kingdom. He is sometimes regarded as the founder of the kingdom proper, as ...
sacked Dhubhan in his 7th century BC campaigns.
Center of the Zurayid ramp state
Dhubhan, Dimloa, Yumain & Munif were listed among the last citadels surrendered by the
Zurayids
The Zurayid Dynasty (بنو زريع, Banū Zuraiʿ), were a Yamite Hamdani dynasty based in Yemen in the time between 1083 and 1174. The centre of its power was Aden. The Zurayids suffered the same fate as the Hamdanid sultans, the Sulaym ...
to the
Ayyubids
The Ayyubid dynasty (), also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish ori ...
in 1193.
Invention of coffee
Muhammad Ibn Said Al Dhobhani, a 15th-century Sufi Imam, who traded goods between Yemen & Ethiopia, introduced the first coffee beans to Yemen.
Within a short period coffee was exported out of Mocha & Aden to the rest of the world.
See also
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Mocha coffee bean
The Mocha coffee bean is a variety of coffee bean originally from Yemen. It is harvested from the coffee-plant species ''Coffea arabica'', which is native to Yemen. Mocha coffee beans are very small, hard, have an irregular round shape, and are ...
*
Caffè mocha
A mocha ( or ), also called mocaccino (), is a chocolate-flavoured variant of caffè latte, commonly served warm or hot in a glass rather than a mug. Other commonly used spellings are mochaccino and also mochachino. The name is derived f ...
References
Populated places in Taiz Governorate
Towns in Yemen
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