Tawahi ( ar, مديرية التواهي) is a city district in the city of Aden, located in the

Aden Governorate Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people ...

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 ...

Etymology & History

The name Al-Tawahi is derived from the anglicized local Adeni dialect pronunciation of the word suburbs ( ar, الضواحي), the Tawahi district became known as "Steamer Point" during Aden's time as a British colony. It was urbanized by the British and planned as a modern port and was part of

Aden Settlement The Chief Commissioner's Province of Aden was the administrative status under which the former Aden Settlement (1839–1932) was placed from 1932 to 1937. Under that new status, the Viceroy of India assumed direct control over Aden, which had h ...

Population

Its population in 2004 was about 52,984.

Notable people

David Buggé David Anthony Bowdell Buggé (born 12 December 1956) is an English banker and former first-class cricketer. Buggé was born in the Colony of Aden in December 1956. He was educated in England at Cranleigh School, before going up to Oriel Colleg ...

(born 1956), English cricketer and banker

References

Muhammad Abd al wali in ''Sana, ville ouverte'' mentions the city district. Aden Populated places in Aden Governorate World War II sites in Aden {{yemen-geo-stub