Bayt Zud (Bayt Zūd) is a village in Kharif District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen.[1]
Bayt Zud | |
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Village | |
  Bayt Zud Location in Yemen | |
| Coordinates: 15°55′49″N 44°01′36″E / 15.93035°N 44.02673°E[1] | |
| Country |  Yemen |
| Governorate | Amran |
| District | Maswar |
| Elevation | 8,419 ft (2,566 m) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (Yemen Standard Time) |
Name and history
editAccording to the 10th-century writer al-Hamdani, Bayt Zud is named after Zuwad b. Sayf b. ʽAmr b. al-Sabīʽ, of the tribe of Hashid.[2] He clarifies that Zūd, or Zuwad, was the Himyaritic form of the Arabic name Zayd.[2] He also wrote that Bayt Zud had once been the site of a pre-Islamic palace.[2] Bayt Zud is also mentioned several times in historical sources, including the Ghayat al-amani of Yahya ibn al-Husayn and the Sirat al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq of Ali ibn Muhammad al-Abbasi.[2][note 1]
Notes
edit- ^ Al-Hamdani also mentioned a second Bayt Zud, on Jabal Miswar, but the Ghayat al-amani and the Sirat are not referring to that place, which evidently no longer exists.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Geonames.org. Bayt Zūd". Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Wilson, Robert T.O. (1989). Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen. Germany: Georg Olms AG. pp. 183–4. Retrieved 3 March 2021.