Thaqban

Thaqban (Arabic: ثقبان Thaqbān) is a village in Bani al-Harith District of Amanat al-Asimah Governorate, Yemen.

[1] It is located just south of the point where the Wadi Zahr opens out onto the Sanaa plain.

[2] It is part of the 'uzlah of Qaryat al-Qabil.

[2] The 10th-century writer al-Hamdani related a legend about the village of Thaqban in his Iklil and wrote that Thaqban takes its name from one Thaqban b. Nawf b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.

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