Sadah
Saada ( ar, صَعْدَة, translit=Ṣaʿda), a city and ancient capital in the northwest of Yemen, is the capital and largest city of the province of the same name, and the county seat of the county of the same name. The city is located in the mountains of Serat (Sarawat) at an altitude of about 1,800 meters and had an estimated population of 51,870 in 2004, when it was the tenth largest city in Yemen. As early as the reign of the Main Kingdom, the earliest country in the history of Yemen, the area where Saada is located today was included in the national map of Yemen. Sa'da is one of the earliest medieval cities in Yemen, the birthplace of the Shiite sect of Islam in Yemen and the base of the regime of the Zeid imam of Yemen. From the beginning of the 9th century to the 20th century, the Rasi dynasty, the longest reigning dynasty in Yemen history (the dynasty's direct line was replaced by the collateral dynasty Qassem dynasty since the end of the 16th century), made its fortun ...
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Saada Governorate
Saada ( ar, صَعْدَة, Ṣaʿdah) is one of the governorates of Yemen. The governorate's seat and the largest city is Saada. It is the epicentre of Zaydism"Sa‘da in the North Yemeni Context"
Salmoni, Barak A., Bryce Loidolt, and Madeleine Wells. ''Regime and Periphery in Northern Yemen: The Huthi Phenomenon'', pp. 19–44. JSTOR. Accessed 10 August 2021. and where the group originates from.

Geography

The governorate is 240 kilometers from the capital . Northwest of its capital, Saada city, the terrain of the governorate becomes increasingly mounta ...
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