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ID: 1087307
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087307
Record Type:
administrative
Dhamar (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 044 30 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in highlands; seat of famous theological school; was center for Shiite Zaydi sect of Islam that dominated Yemen for centuries; was capital of the Dhamar (Central) province under the monarchy & ruled by Wazir emirs until 1944.
Names:
Dhamār
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Dhamar
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
Damar
(
C
,
V
)
Demar
(
C
,
V
)
דמאר
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Yemen
(nation) (
P
)
............
Dhamār
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Dhamar
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an early religious center
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
דמאר..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Damar..........
[
VP
]
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
331
Demar..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 242
Dhamār..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
54
Dhamar..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
331
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 242
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
54
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
331
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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