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Ad Dahi district

District of Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4117503 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ad Dahi district (Arabic: مديرية الضحي) is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. In 2003, the district had a population of 54,503.

Cities

Ad-Dahi

Geography

The district contains the hills Jabal al Maḩāriq, Jabal al Minjārah, Jabal al Qāhirī, Kabbat al Ḩamrā' and Kabbat al Manşabah, and the wadis Wādī al Mūsīyah, Wādī Kusr and Wādī Namir.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ad Dahi district” is district of Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dahi, district and District, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dahi, district and District is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “district of Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4117503. Authority coordinates are 15.083, 43.167. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ad Dahi district”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ad Dahi district primary sources, Ad Dahi district archive and Dahi research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ad Dahi district”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ad Dahi district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.