Najr | |
Native Name: | نجر |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Yemen |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Yemen |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Yemen |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | 'Amran |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Iyal Surayh |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | Yemen Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 15.6426°N 43.9476°W[1] |
Elevation M: | 2297 |
Najr (ar|نجر) is a village in Iyal Surayh District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen.[1] It is located just to the south of 'Amran, on a small hill at the lower end of the Wadi Khuzamir.[2]
There are pre-Islamic ruins at Najr. Robert T.O. Wilson identified Najr with the palace of al-Nujayr mentioned by the 10th-century author al-Hamdani as one of the famous structures of Yemen. Najr was used as a military base at the edge of the Bawn during the medieval period, and during the Rasulid era, it was used as a base for a siege against Thula.[2]