ʽAttan
ʽAttan
عطان | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  ʽAttan Location in Yemen | |
| Coordinates: 15°18′50″N 44°10′41″E / 15.31392°N 44.17808°E[1] | |
| Country |  Yemen |
| Governorate | Sanaa |
| District | Bani Matar |
| Elevation | 7,785 ft (2,373 m) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time) |
ʽAttan (Arabic: عطان ‘Aţţān), also transliterated as ʽIttan and known historically as ʽAḍudān, is a village in Bani Matar District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen.[1][2] It is a short distance southwest of Sanaa, with the two being separated by a long, low hill.[2]
Name and history
[edit]According to Robert T.O. Wilson, the older form of the name ʽAttan was ʽAḍudān, as it appears in most historical sources.[2] Both forms are found in the works of the 10th-century writer al-Hamdani, although never in the same one.[2] Wilson also pointed to the name of the Fajj ʽAttan, a prominent landform in the hill between ʽAttan and Sanaa, as most likely being the same as the Fajj ʽAḍudān mentioned by al-Razi.[2]
In addition to al-Hamdani and al-Razi, ʽAttan was mentioned by the geographers al-Bakri and Yaqut al-Hamawi, as well as in the historical accounts by Yahya ibn al-Husayn, Muhammad ibn Hatim al-Yami al-Hamdani, and Ali ibn Muhammad al-Abbasi.[2] It was the site of a fortress.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "'Aţţān, Yemen". www.geonames.org. GeoNames. 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g Wilson, Robert T.O. (1989). Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen in the Islamic Period to 1650. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms. p. 247. ISBN 9783487091952. Retrieved 2023-01-25.