Baraqish
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Barāqish or Barāgish or Aythel () is a town in north-western Yemen, 120 miles to the east of Sanaa in al Jawf Governorate on a high hill. It is located in Wādī Farda(h), a popular caravan route because of the presence of water. It was known to the Greeks and Romans as Athlula (or Athrula), from the ancient Sabaean (probably vocalized Yathill).
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Baraqish
- Settlement.other_name
- Yathill
- Settlement.native_name
- براقش
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Barakisk flickr01.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Yemen
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Yemen
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Al Jawf Governorate
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- Yemen Standard Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +03:00
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Yemen
- Located in
- Majzar District
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Image
- Barakisk flickr01.jpg
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Barāqish or Barāgish or Aythel () is a town in north-western Yemen, 120 miles to the east of Sanaa in al Jawf Governorate on a high hill. It is located in Wādī Farda(h), a popular caravan route because of the presence of water. It was known to the Greeks and Romans as Athlula (or Athrula), from the ancient Sabaean (probably vocalized Yathill).
Barāqish was inhabited as early as the Bronze Age, one generation building their houses on the ruins of the earlier ones. In the main area of the site, there still remain the ruins of a dome, a mosque, a well and tower, as well as many pottery shards and pieces of glass. People lived in the town up to the 1960s, but it has since been abandoned, and is at present occupied by the military.
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