Kuhlan Affar ( ar, كحلان عفار ), also called simply Kuhlan ( ar, كحلان ) and known historically as Kuhlan Taj al-Din, is a town in
Hajjah District
Hajjah District ( ar, مُدِيْرِيَّة حَجَّة, Mudīriyyat Ḥajjah) is a district of the Hajjah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 29,533 inhabitants.
History
Albeit enjoying peace between 2013 and th ...
,
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
, and the seat of
Kuhlan Affar District
Kuhlan Affar District is a district of the Hajjah Governorate, Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, ...
.
Located at the southern end of the Affar mountain range, it has a large market and is a minor administrative center.
Agriculture in the area is done with
terrace
Terrace may refer to:
Landforms and construction
* Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river
* Terrace, a street suffix
* Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk a ...
s to help retain water.
History
The site of an old fortress, Kuhlan was historically known as ''Kuhlan Taj al-Din'' after the emir
Taj al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Hamzah, who according to the ''
Ghayat al-amani'' of
Yahya ibn al-Husayn, was ruler of Kuhlan and other strongholds in Yemen's western mountains during the year 1307 (707
AH).
It is not clear from historical sources if this is the Kuhlan built by the
Imam of Yemen al-Mansur Abdullah ibn Hamzah (d. 1217), or if it's the Kuhlan where
Imad al-Din Yahya ibn Hamzah died and was buried in 1239 (636 AH).
It was historically most important during the 16th and 17th centuries.
References
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Populated places in Hajjah Governorate