Yahr

Yahr is a valley and tribal district in the mountains of Yafa, northeast of Aden. Its fertile wadi runs down toward Wadi Bana, and villages and cultivated terraces occupy the surrounding heights and valleys. The name Yahr is old: inscriptions from southern Arabia mention it, and the geographer al-Hamdani knew the valley. Yahr formed one of the tribal divisions of Yafa, whose communities occupied a rugged country of steep approaches and mountain settlements.