Ḵamir

Khamir lies in the Yemeni highlands north of Sanaa. The tenth-century scholar al-Hamdani described it as a town of the Bakil tribe and recorded ancient remains there. In 1398 a chronicle mentioned houses whose foundations were attributed to the Himyarites. From the late sixteenth century, Khamir appears more often in accounts as a base used by armies moving through the highlands.