Najr
Introduction '''Najr''' ( ) is a village in Iyal Surayh District of 'Amran Governorate, Yemen. It is located just to the south of 'Amran, on a small hill at the lower end of the Wadi Khuzamir.
History There are pre-Islamic ruins at Najr. Robert T.O. Wilson identified Najr with the palace of ''al-Nujayr'' mentioned by the 10th-century author al-Hamdani as one of the famous structures of Yemen. Najr was used as a military base at the edge of the Bawn during the medieval period, and during the Rasulid era, it was used as a base for a siege against Thula.
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