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- noun Plural form of
Himyarite .
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Examples
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Actually it was the Sabaeans, the Himyarites. and Hadramaut that you need to understand.
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The king commanded his Himyarites to cut tree-boughs and use them as screens
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It was originally the banner of Yemen, to which place the Arabs who rule in Oman trace their origin; for early in our era, according to Arab tradition, Oman was colonised and taken possession of by descendants of the old Himyarites of
Southern Arabia Mabel Bent
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The empire of the Himyarites, which filled Yemen and the Hadhramout valley with interesting remains, does not appear to have extended its sway so far eastward; no Sabæan remains have as yet been found in Oman, nor are there any that I have heard of further east than the frankincense country of Dhofar, over six hundred miles west of Maskat.
Southern Arabia Mabel Bent
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The Himyarites are too well-known to be described.
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At any rate, whether Theophilus succeeded in converting more Himyarites to the Christian faith or whether, as Assemani seems to believe, he simply perverted the already existing Christian population to the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Theodoret, and Eusebius assert that during the reign of Constantine the Great (312-337) a Tyrian philosopher named Meropius determined to visit the Himyarites in Arabia Felix.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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This prince, during the rein of Masrouq, and at the instigation of some noble and rich Himyarites who had assisted him with money and all the means available, repaired to Constantinople and appealed to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In the plains of the Upper Nile, side by side with some negro tribes, were a people allied to the Himyarites, and who had migrated thither from southern Arabia, while others again showed that they owed their origin to the Egyptians and Berbers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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But this document shows us in a manner the death-throes of the tribe which was then dependent on the Himyarites and doubtless was soon rendered wholly extinct by absorption in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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