Lahij

Government

Lahidsch or Laḩij or al - Hawtah (Arabic لحج, Laḥiǧ DMG ) is a town that lies between Taiz and Aden in the nearby eponymous province in Yemen. In 1994, the city of 19,006 inhabitants. 2012 There are already more than 30,000 inhabitants, according to calculations.

History

The city was in the period between the 18th and 20th century by the family dynasty of the Al- Abdali and the families of Al- Sallami, Al - Ramada, Al- Sindi and al - Aqrabi, which go back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad ( Ahl al -bait ), governs.

Lahidsch was the capital of the sultans of Lahidsch.

The region in the hinterland of Aden remained long undetected, especially as a project from the year 1907, the planned construction of a railway from Aden on Lahidsch to Dhala and Sanaa to implement, while the contemporaneous Turkish protection was met with protest and resistance, and therefore could not be realized.