Tihamah
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Tihamah is the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tihamah
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.image_map
- Map of the regions of Arabia.svg
- Settlement.named_for
- Proto-Semitic term for "sea"
- Settlement.parts_type
- Cities
- Settlement.parts
- Jeddah, Yanbu, Al Qunfudhah, Jizan, Midi, Al Hudaydah, Khaukha, and Mocha
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Tihami
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Arabian Peninsula
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Countries
- Settlement.map_caption
- Map of the Tihamah of Hijaz and Yemen shown on the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- plain
- Country
- Yemen
- Located in
- Al Hudaydah
- Elevation
- 690
- Body of water
- Red Sea
- Image
- Tihama on the Red Sea near Khaukha, Yemen.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tihamah
- located in/on physical feature
- Arabian Peninsula
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Era of Muhammad
- Geography
- Climate
- Flora
- Archaeology
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Further reading
- External links
Tihamah is the Red Sea coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb.
==Etymology== Tihāmat is the Proto-Semitic language's term for 'sea'. Tiamat was the ancient Mesopotamian god of the sea and of chaos. The word appears in masculine form in the Hebrew Bible as təhōm (Genesis 1:2), meaning "primordial ocean, abyss".
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