Tihamah
Also known as Tihāmah, Tehama
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
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- Etymology
- History
- Era of Muhammad
- Geography
- Climate
- Flora
- Archaeology
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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.
==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".