Lahij

Lahej or Lahij, formerly called Al-Hawtah, is a city and an area located between Ta'izz and in . From the 18th to the 20th century, its rulers were of the Abdali branch of the Al-Sallami tribe who trace their lineage to one of the 10 tribes of Yaffa called Kalad.
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  • Type: Town with 25,500 residents
  • Description: city in Yemen
  • Also known as: “Al Hawtah”, “Al Ḩawţah”, “Lahadj”, “Lahaj”, “Lahej”, and “Lahj”

Lahij

Latitude
13.05778° or 13° 3′ 28″ north
Longitude
44.88361° or 44° 53′ 1″ east
Population
25,500
Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)
United Nations Location Code
YE LEH
Open location code
7H563V5M+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6039901085
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
73560
Wiki­data ID
Q249175
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Lahij” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ላሂጅ”
  • Arabic: “الحوطة”
  • Arabic: “لحج”
  • Asturian: “Lahij”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lahc”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lahic”
  • Bengali: “লাহিজ”
  • Catalan: “Lahej”
  • Cebuano: “Laḩij”
  • Chinese: “拉赫季”
  • Croatian: “Lahidž”
  • Croatian: “Lahij”
  • Danish: “Lahij”
  • Dutch: “Lahij”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لحج”
  • Finnish: “Lahij”
  • French: “Lahij”
  • German: “Lahidsch”
  • German: “Lahij”
  • Greek: “Λαχίτζ”
  • Gujarati: “લાહિજ”
  • Hausa: “Lahij”
  • Hebrew: “אל-חאוטה”
  • Hebrew: “להג‘”
  • Hebrew: “לחג‘”
  • Hebrew: “לחג’”
  • Hindi: “लाहिज”
  • Indonesian: “Lahij”
  • Italian: “Lahij”
  • Japanese: “ラヒジ”
  • Japanese: “ラヒジュ”
  • Javanese: “Lahij”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಹೀಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Лахидж”
  • Kirghiz: “Лахидж”
  • Korean: “라흐치”
  • Latvian: “Lehidža”
  • Lithuanian: “Al Huta”
  • Malay: “Lahij”
  • Marathi: “लाहिज”
  • Mingrelian: “ლაჰჯი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lahij”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Houta”
  • Oromo: “Lahij”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਹਿਜ”
  • Persian: “لاهج”
  • Persian: “لحج”
  • Polish: “Lahidż”
  • Portuguese: “Lahij”
  • Pushto: “لاهج”
  • Romanian: “Lahij”
  • Russian: “Лахдж”
  • Russian: “Лахыдж”
  • Scots: “Lahij”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lahidž”
  • Sinhala: “ලහිජ්”
  • Somali: “Lahaaj”
  • Spanish: “Lahej”
  • Spanish: “Lahij”
  • Swahili: “Lahiji”
  • Swedish: “Lahij”
  • Tajik: “Лоҳидж”
  • Tamil: “லஹிஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Лахидж”
  • Telugu: “లాహిజ్”
  • Thai: “ละฮิจญ์”
  • Turkish: “Lahic”
  • Turkish: “Lahij”
  • Ukrainian: “Лахдж”
  • Urdu: “لاہج”
  • Urdu: “لحج”
  • Uzbek: “Lahij”
  • Vietnamese: “Lahij”

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