Ẓafār
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 08, 2021 04:40 PM
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History
This ancient settlement, located in the southern highlands of modern Yemen, was the capital of the Ḥimyarite tribal confederacy from the third to the sixth centuries of the modern era.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39423
14.211704, 44.400794
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Zafar, Yemen (modern)
- Ẓafār capital of Homeritai (30 BC - AD 640)
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settlement, settlement-modern
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B3 Sap(p)har
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Zafar YEM
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ẓafār: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39423> [accessed: 28 September 2023]
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