Bayt Yaram ( ) is a village and historical fortress southwest of
Sanaa
Sanaa, officially the Sanaa Municipality, is the ''de jure'' capital and largest city of Yemen. The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate, but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit. At an elevation ...
in
Bani Matar District
Bani Matar District () is a district of the Sanaa Governorate, Yemen. , the district had a population of 100,012 inhabitants.
Environment
In this district is located Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb or Jabal Hadhur of the Harazi subrange of the Sarat ra ...
of
Sanaa Governorate
Sanaa ( '), also spelled San'a or Sana, is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Sanaa, which is also the national capital. However, the city of Sanaa is not part of the governorate but instead forms the separate governorate of Amanat Al-Asema ...
,
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 ...
.
History
The early 13th-century writer
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) () was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries). He is known for his , an influential work on geography con ...
mentions Bayt Yaram (which he vocalizes as ''Bayt Yurām'') as one of the fortresses of Yemen.
It is also mentioned in the ''
Kitab al-Simt'' of
Muhammad ibn Hatim al-Yami al-Hamdani in connection with the events of the year 1264 (662
AH), as "Hisn Yaram".
It also appears several times in the ''
Ghayat al-amani'' of
Yahya ibn al-Husayn Yahya may refer to:
* Yahya (name), a common Arabic male given name
* Yahya (Zaragoza), 11th-century ruler of Zaragoza
* Yahya of Antioch / Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Antaki / Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī, 11th century Christian Arabic historian.
* ...
'', misspelled as "Bayt B-rām".
References
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Villages in Sanaa Governorate
Bani Matar District