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ID: 7032680
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032680
Record Type:
administrative
Zafar (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 12 41 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.2110
decimal degrees
Long: 044 24 12 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.4030
decimal degrees
Elevation:
9186.352
feet
2800.0000
meters
Note:
Ruined city located 130 kilometers south of Yemen's capital, Sana. Zafar was the capital of the Himyar empire, 115 BCE-525 CE, which at its peak ruled most of Arabia. Located near a village of the same name.
Names:
Zafar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
S
)
Ðafār
(
C
,
V
)
ظفار
(
C
,
V
,
Arabic
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
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Asia
(continent) (
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Al Yaman
(nation) (
P
)
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Ibb
(governorate) (
P
)
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Zafar
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
ruins (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
capital (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
ظفار..........
[
VP
]
...........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Ðafār..........
[
VP
]
..............
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Zafar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Zafar-Himyar, University of Heidelberg [online] (2009-)
accessed 16 April 2009
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Zafar-Himyar, University of Heidelberg [online] (2009-)
accessed 16 April 2009
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Zafar-Himyar, University of Heidelberg [online] (2009-)
accessed 16 April 2009
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