Anss District Explained

ʿAnss District
Other Name:	ʿAns
Native Name:	عنس
Settlement Type:	District
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Yemen
Subdivision Type1:	Governorate
Subdivision Name1:	Dhamar
Population As Of:	2003
Population Total:	119124
Timezone:	Yemen Standard Time
Utc Offset:	+3

ʿAnss District, also spelled ʿAns,^[1] (Arabic: مديرية عنس) is a district of the Dhamar Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 119,124 inhabitants.^[2]

History

The 9th-century writer Ya'qubi listed ʿAns as one of the 84 mikhlafs (administrative divisions) of Yemen.^[3] It was a tribal region named after ʿAns b. Mālik, and contained the towns of Thāt and Bishār.^[4]

References

14.5833°N 69°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: ‘Ans . Geonames . 10 May 2020.
2. Web site: Districts of Yemen. Statoids. October 21, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101129043227/http://statoids.com/yye.html. 29 November 2010 . live.
3. Book: al-Ya'qubi . Ibn Wadih . Gordon . Matthew S. . Robinson . Chase F. . Rowson . Everett K. . Fishbein . Michael . The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 1): An English Translation . 2017 . Brill . 9004364145 . 154 . 10 May 2020.
4. Book: Eagle . A.B.D.R. . Ghayat al-amani and the life and times of al-Hadi Yahya b. al-Husayn: an introduction, newly edited text and translation with detailed annotation . 1990 . Durham University . 141, 161, 198 . 10 May 2020.