The strategic importance of the valley Mephaath | ||
Journal Of Al-Frahids Arts | ||
Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 19, June 2017, Pages 219-243 | ||
Author | ||
Hanan Essa Jasim | ||
Abstract | ||
Represented the area Maifa'a safe for convoys business as a strategic area in ancient Yemen, so he sought all the kingdom of the kingdoms of ancient Yemen to control it due to these important and strategic location, fertile land, and agricultural crops abundant told by irrigation projects and wide, so he sought distress (karab al watar) to sabotage the facilities of irrigation to impose perpetuate Maifa'a infrastructure, as well as the state sought to control the Himyarite Maifa'a area, in the time of King (sharam Otter), She returned again to control it after a failed first attempt, as well as tried-Ahbash control of the area Maifa'a, but it came under stiff resistance from the Yemeni people invited her to retreat and withdrawal, as well as Altobgraveh rugged area Maifa'a Thus, the area of Wadi Maifa'a was prone to conflicts between the many parties to control it for their economic importance The military and the importance of its port (QNA), which were merchant ships off of it and come back to him laden with goods, including the frankincense trade, which was a Petral antiquity to Yemen. | ||
Keywords | ||
The strategic importance; of the valley Mephaath | ||
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