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| native_name             = حَجَّة
| settlement_type         = City
| image_skyline           = Hajjah 01.jpg
| imagesize               = 300px
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| pushpin_map_caption     = Location in Yemen
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| subdivision_type        = Country
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| subdivision_type1       = [[Governorates of Yemen|Governorate]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[Hajjah Governorate|Hajjah]]
| subdivision_type2       = [[Districts of Yemen|District]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Hajjah District|Hajjah]]
| population_total        = 53887
| population_blank1_title = Ethnicities
| timezone                = Yemen Standard Time
| utc_offset              = +3
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'''Hajjah''' ({{langx|ar|حَجَّة|Ḥajjah}}) is the capital city of [[Hajjah Governorate]] in north-western [[Yemen]]. It is located 127 kilometres northwest of [[Sana'a]], at an elevation of about 1800 metres.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yemen-nic.net/English%20site/SITE%20CONTAINTS/Tourism/Touristic%20sites/Hajjah/Hajjah.htm |title=Hajjah Governorate |publisher=Yemen National Information Centre |access-date=21 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828113224/http://www.yemen-nic.net/English%20site/SITE%20CONTAINTS/Tourism/Touristic%20sites/Hajjah/Hajjah.htm |archive-date=28 August 2010}}</ref> As of 2003, the Hajjah City District had a population of 53,887 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.statoids.com/yye.html |title=Districts of Yemen |publisher=Statoids |access-date=21 October 2010}}</ref>
== Etymology ==
According to Arab traditions, the name Hajjah came from Hajjah Ibn Aslam Ibn Ali Ibn [[Hashid]]. Some traditions say that Hajjah was also called Hajour, all the tribes in Hajjah are branches from Hajour tribe.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVxGCwAAQBAJ&q=%D8%AD%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1+%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A+%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1&pg=PT427 |title=معجم البلدان والقبائل اليمنية |last=IslamKotob |publisher=IslamKotob |pages=425 |language=ar}}</ref>
== History ==
[[File:Hajjah fortress.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Hajjah fortress]]
[[File:Map of Yemen, prepared by Niebuhr.tif|thumb|[[Carsten Niebuhr]]'s 18th-century map of Yemen, showing the region of Belled Hadsj at upper left]]
Historically, the name ''Hajjah'' referred to a district rather than a town. It was the mountainous region around the modern town, stretching northward towards [[al-Zafir, Yemen|al-Zafir]], and separated from the mountain formations to the east, west, and north by the [[Wadi Sharis]] and the [[Wadi Mawr]]. There were numerous forts in this area during the Middle Ages. The 10th-century writer [[Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani|al-Hamdani]] counted Hajjah as part of the broader districts of [[Sarāt Qudam]] or [[Sarāt al-Maṣāniʽ]], with Hajjah appearing to be on the border between the two. He wrote that its population mostly belonged to the [[Qudam]] tribe, and that its name was derived from one Ḥajjah b. Aslam b. ‘Aliyyān b. Zayd, of the tribe of [[Hashid]]. Other medieval writers to mention Hajjah include [[Muhammad ibn Salah al-Sharafi]] and {{ill|Yahya ibn al-Husayn|ar|يحيى بن الحسين الشجري|fr|Al-Murshid Billah}}. The area's [[suq]], which belonged to the Hashid tribe, may have been at the site of the modern town, but the roads in the area appear to have been different in the middle ages, based on Hamdani's description, so this is uncertain.<ref name="Wilson 1989">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Robert T.O. |title=Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen |date=1989 |publisher=Georg Olms AG |location=Germany |pages=10, 32, 34, 39, 129 |isbn=978-3-487-09195-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SnMrAAAAMAAJ |access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref>
During the 1700s, Hajjah still referred mainly to the geographical region, as shown by the map drawn by [[Carsten Niebuhr]] in the 1700s, which shows a region called "Belled Hadsj" rather than a town by that name. By the time [[Eduard Glaser]] visited in the late 1800s, however, the modern town of Hajjah had begun to develop. Its population in the census of 1975 was 5,613.<ref name="Wilson 1989" />
== Climate ==
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| single line=y
| location =  Hajjah
| Jan high C = 29.6
| Feb high C = 31.0
| Mar high C = 33.9
| Apr high C = 32.3
| May high C = 33.7
| Jun high C = 34.2
| Jul high C = 36.3
| Aug high C = 33.9
| Sep high C = 35.0
| Oct high C = 35.1
| Nov high C = 33.1
| Dec high C = 31.4
| year high C =
| Jan mean C = 20.5
| Feb mean C = 22.1
| Mar mean C = 24.0
| Apr mean C = 24.2
| May mean C = 25.0
| Jun mean C = 26.2
| Jul mean C = 26.5
| Aug mean C = 26.5
| Sep mean C = 25.5
| Oct mean C = 24.3
| Nov mean C = 18.1
| Dec mean C = 19.9
| year mean C =
| Jan low C = 11.5
| Feb low C = 13.2
| Mar low C = 15.3
| Apr low C = 15.2
| May low C = 16.1
| Jun low C = 17.0
| Jul low C = 17.7
| Aug low C = 17.2
| Sep low C = 14.6
| Oct low C = 13.0
| Nov low C = 11.6
| Dec low C = 11.4
| year low C =
| rain colour = green
| Jan rain mm = 12
| Feb rain mm = 21
| Mar rain mm = 36
| Apr rain mm = 110
| May rain mm = 39
| Jun rain mm = 26
| Jul rain mm = 45
| Aug rain mm = 101
| Sep rain mm = 38
| Oct rain mm = 0
| Nov rain mm = 11
| Dec rain mm = 29
| year rain mm = 468
| Jan humidity = 62
| Feb humidity = 61
| Mar humidity = 59
| Apr humidity = 60
| May humidity = 63
| Jun humidity = 48
| Jul humidity = 58
| Aug humidity = 59
| Sep humidity = 57
| Oct humidity = 51
| Nov humidity = 53
| Dec humidity = 63
| year humidity =58
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| Jand sun = 9.5
| Febd sun = 9.8
| Mard sun = 9.0
| Aprd sun = 11.1
| Mayd sun = 11.6
| Jund sun = 11.9
| Juld sun = 9.2
| Augd sun = 10.4
| Sepd sun = 10.7
| Octd sun = 10.5
| Novd sun = 9.6
| Decd sun = 8.6
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| source 1 = Arab Meteorology Book<ref>{{cite web |url=http://extras.springer.com/2007/978-1-4020-4577-6/Book_Shahin_ISBN_9781402045776_Appendix.pdf |title=Appendix I: Meteorological Data |publisher=Springer |access-date=14 October 2024 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072830/http://extras.springer.com/2007/978-1-4020-4577-6/Book_Shahin_ISBN_9781402045776_Appendix.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| date=14 October 2024
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== References ==
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{{Hajjah Governorate}}
{{Yemeni cities}}
[[Category:Populated places in Hajjah Governorate]]