Hajjah
Hajjah
حَجَّة | |
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City | |
UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time) |
Hajjah (
Etymology
According to Arab traditions, the name Hajjah came from Hajjah Ibn Aslam Ibn Ali Ibn Hashid. Some traditions say that Hajjah was also called Hajour, all the tribes in Hajjah are branches from Hajour tribe.[3]
History
Historically, the name Hajjah referred to a district rather than a town. It was the mountainous region around the modern town, stretching northward towards
During the 1700s, Hajjah still referred mainly to the geographical region, as shown by the map drawn by Carsten Niebuhr in the 1700s, which shows a region called "Belled Hadsj" rather than a town by that name. By the time Eduard Glaser visited in the late 1800s, however, the modern town of Hajjah had begun to develop. Its population in the census of 1975 was 5,613.[4]
Climate
| Climate data for Hajjah | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 24.0 (75.2) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.9 (80.4) |
27.1 (80.8) |
28.6 (83.5) |
30.7 (87.3) |
29.5 (85.1) |
29.0 (84.2) |
28.2 (82.8) |
25.3 (77.5) |
23.3 (73.9) |
22.9 (73.2) |
26.8 (80.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 7.6 (45.7) |
8.5 (47.3) |
11.1 (52.0) |
12.7 (54.9) |
14.6 (58.3) |
15.3 (59.5) |
17.0 (62.6) |
16.9 (62.4) |
14.5 (58.1) |
11.8 (53.2) |
9.4 (48.9) |
8.2 (46.8) |
12.3 (54.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7 (0.3) |
8 (0.3) |
22 (0.9) |
39 (1.5) |
24 (0.9) |
4 (0.2) |
34 (1.3) |
54 (2.1) |
12 (0.5) |
4 (0.2) |
8 (0.3) |
7 (0.3) |
223 (8.8) |
| Source: Climate-data.org | |||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Hajjah Governorate". Yemen National Information Centre. Archived from the original on August 28, 2010. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ^ "Districts of Yemen". Statoids. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
- ^ IslamKotob. معجم البلدان والقبائل اليمنية (in Arabic). IslamKotob. p. 425.
- ^ ISBN 9783487091952. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
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