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“Himyar is the name of a geographical area in southwest Arabia as well as that of a tribal confederation in power from the 1st cent. BC to ca. AD 525.” 1

Names

  • Ḥimyar2
  • حِمْيَر4
  • South Arabia3

Place Type

region

Descriptions

“260. Ḥimyar” 1
“Himyar is the name of a geographical area in southwest Arabia as well as that of a tribal confederation in power from the 1st cent. BC to ca. AD 525.” 1

Attestation

Attestation of name حِمْيَر in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. حِمْيَر4 4
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay260. ḤimyarThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 197-198., p: 197-198.
  • 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 149, 197–198, 272, 293, 302, 376.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: South Arabia.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:352.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Ḥimyar” last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/474.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson, “Ḥimyar.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2014. Entry published June 30, 2014. http://syriaca.org/place/474.

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  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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