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{{Infobox World Heritage Site
| WHS = Historic Town of Zabid
| Image = [[Image:Zabid, Yemen.jpg|240px|]]
| State Party = {{YEM}}
| Type = Cultural
| Criteria = ii, iv, vi
| ID = 611
| Region = [[Arab States]]
| Year = 1993
| Session = 17th
| Danger = 2000-
| Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/611
}}
'''Zabid''' ({{lang-ar|زبيد}}) (also spelled '''Zebid''') is a town with an urban population of around 23,000 persons<ref>World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Zabid Joint Monitoring Mission, 17th - 26th January 2007</ref> on [[Yemen]]'s western coastal plain. The town, named after [[Wadi]] Zabid the wadi to its south, is one of the oldest towns in Yemen, it was the capital of Yemen from the 13th to the 15th century and a center of the [[Arab]] and [[Muslim]] world due in large part to its famed [[University of Zabid]] and being a center of Islamic education. It was the capital of the [[Ziyadid dynasty]] from [[819]]–[[1018]] and the [[Najahid dynasty]] from [[1022]]–[[1158]].<ref>"Najahid Dynasty." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 14 Apr. 2006 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9054701>.</ref> Today, however, it is at the intellectual and economic margins of modern Yemen.<ref>Eickelman, Dale F. "The Middle East and Central Asia." (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River: 2002)</ref>
Zabid has been declared a [[World Heritage Site]] by the [[UNESCO]]. Its Great Mosque occupies a prominent place in the town. The vestiges of its university can also be visited. In [[2000]], Zabid was listed on the [[List of World Heritage Sites in danger|List of World Heritage in Danger]]; the listing was made on the behest of the Yemeni government due to a state of poor upkeep and conservation.
== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/611 UNESCO World Heritage Site listing]
*[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9078175/Zabid Encyclopaedia Britannica, Zabid]
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