Editing Asir

{{Short description|South-Western administrative region of Saudi Arabia bordering Yemen}}
{{Other uses|Asir (disambiguation)}}
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'''Asir''',{{efn|{{langx|ar|عَسِيْر|ʿAsīr}}}}{{efn|also spelled '''Aseer''', '''Assir'''}} officially the '''Aseer Province''',{{efn|{{langx|ar|مِنْطَقَةُ عَسِيْرٌ|Minṭaqat ʿAsīr}}}} is a [[Provinces of Saudi Arabia|province]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] in [[South Arabia|southern Arabia]]. It has an area of {{convert|76,693|km2}}, and an estimated population of 2,024,285 (in 2022).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stats.gov.sa/sites/default/files/population_characteristics_surveysar.pdf|title=Population Characteristics surveys|date=2017|website=General Authority for Statistics|access-date=2019-01-07|archive-date=2019-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328215224/https://www.stats.gov.sa/sites/default/files/population_characteristics_surveysar.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Asir is bounded by the [[Mecca Province]] to the north and west, [[al-Bahah Province]] to the northwest, [[Riyadh Province]] to the northeast, [[Najran Province]] to the southeast, [[Jazan Province]] and the [[Saada Governorate]] of [[Yemen]] to the south.

[[Abha]] is the provincial capital, and other towns include [[Khamis Mushait]], [[Bisha]] and [[Bareq]]. The province governor is [[Turki bin Talal Al Saud|Turki bin Talal]], He replaced his cousin, [[Faisal bin Khalid Al Saud (born 1954)|Faisal bin Khalid]], after being appointed on 27 December 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1857874 |title=A number of Royal Orders Issued 9 Riyadh |date=27 December 2018 |publisher=The [[Saudi Press Agency]]}}</ref>

== Etymology ==
The origin of the name "Asir" remains a subject of debate among historians. One theory, proposed by [[Al-Masudi]] in his work ''[[The Meadows of Gold]]'', suggests that the region was originally known as the "land of Azd".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Masʿūdī |first1=ʿAlī Ibn-al-Ḥusain al- |title=The meadows of gold: the Abbasids |last2=Lunde |first2=Paul |last3=Masʿūdī |first3=ʿAlī Ibn-al-Ḥusain al- |date=1989 |publisher=Kegan Paul Internat |isbn=978-0-7103-0246-5 |location=London |quote="Al-Sarah, the mountain of Azad, is called Al-Sarah, and it is also called Al-Hijaz, but it is called Al-Sarah from this mountain with its back."}}</ref>

Another popular hypothesis suggests that the name "Asir" derives from the Arabic term ''ʿUsrah'' ({{Langx|ar|عُسرة|lit=Hardship}}). This theory comes from the fact that the region's terrain is rugged, which can be challenging to navigate.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-07 |title=بوابة إمارة منطقة عسير - تسميتها بعسير |url=http://aseer.gov.sa/iaportal/articles/19/%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1 |access-date=2024-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307173436/http://aseer.gov.sa/iaportal/articles/19/%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1 |archive-date=2016-03-07 }}</ref>

A third perspective proposed by [[Fuad Hamza]] in his book ''Fi bilad '''ʿ'''Aseer'', links the name to the historical prominence of [[Banu Asir]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=فؤاد حمزة |url=https://archive.org/details/hamlaenglish_gmail_20180324_0647 |title=في بلاد عسير |language=Arabic}}</ref> As the tribe gained power and influence, its name came to encompass the surrounding territories and tribes.<ref name=":0" /> This association was reinforced by the close ties between the Asir tribe and many of the ruling emirs in the region, including those from the Al Yazid, Al Muthami, and Al A'ad families.<ref name=":0" />

== History ==

=== Ancient history ===
In 25 B.C., [[Aelius Gallus]] marched his legions south from [[Ancient Egypt]] on an expedition of {{convert|1,300|mile|km|abbr=off}}, to take control of the ancient overland trade routes between the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and what is now [[Hadhramaut]] in [[Yemen]]. The [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] wanted control of those routes because they were desperate for money and hoped to raise some by capturing [[Marib]], capital of [[Sheba|Saba]], and taking control of the trade in [[incense]] – then a priceless commodity – and other valuable [[Aromatic compound|aromatics]]. As it turned out, however, the expedition was a disaster and little information about Asir emerged.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jameson |first=Shelagh |date=1968 |title=Chronology of the Campaigns of Aelius Gallus and C. Petronius |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/299696 |journal=The Journal of Roman Studies |volume=58 |pages=71–84 |doi=10.2307/299696 |jstor=299696 |issn=0075-4358|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

=== Modern history ===
{{See also|Emirate of Asir|Saudi–Yemeni war (1934)}}
When the [[First Saudi state]] was destroyed by the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1818, the Asiris continued to fight the [[Ottoman Egypt]] forces in their region tenaciously. With the withdrawal of the Ottomans in 1840, the dynasty of [[Al-Ayedh]], also of Mughayd, took control of the Asir highlands.  The Al-Ayedh generally allied themselves to the Saudis, who had re-established their dynasty in 1824, but did not formally enter under their command.  As the Al-Ayedh attempted to expand into the [[Tihamah]] lowlands (present-day [[Jazan Province]]), the [[Ottoman Turks]] felt provoked to invade and occupy the highlands. They defeated and executed the leader of Al Ayedh in 1872 and established a ''mutasarrifiyya'' (a sub-governorate) in [[Abha]] attached to the [[Yemen vilayet]].  Their rule, however, seldom extended far from the isolated forts where their troops were garrisoned.<ref name="a">Headley, R.L. "'Asīr." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P. Bearman , Th. Bianquis , C.E. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2007.</ref>

In about 1906, [[Muhammad ibn Ali al-Idrisi]], a descendant of [[Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi]], began to establish political control of Asir. After negotiations with [[Italy]], which had interests nearby in [[Somalia]], the [[Emirate of Asir|Idrisi]] forces of Muhammad came into conflict with [[Ottoman Army (1861–1922)|Ottoman forces]] in [[Abha]]. The Idrisis were defeated in 1911 by [[Hashemites]] forces under [[Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz|Hussein bin Ali]], Sharif of Mecca, then still loyal to the Ottomans, but the tide turned when Muhammad ibn Ali concluded a secret military alliance with Great Britain (by then at war with the Ottomans) in 1915, and Sharif Hussein later switched sides and joined the British against the Ottomans.

After the end of [[World War I]], Muhammad ibn Ali became ruler of an internationally recognized sovereign state, the [[Emirate of Asir]], until he died in 1920. The territories of the emirate reached from [[Abha]] in the north to [[Hodeidah]] in the south. Muhammad's successors were, however, unable to resist the growing power of [[Ibn Saud]], who began annexing Asir and its neighboring regions after Muhammad's death, initially intervening under the pretext of mediating between the Al-Ayedh of Asir and the Idrisis.  The Saudis took control of the regional capital [[Abha]] in 1920, and incorporated the rest of Asir by 1923.<ref name="a"/>  [[Ibn Saud]] later successfully fought off a rival claim for the region by the Zaydi [[Imam]] of the neighboring [[Kingdom of Yemen]] in 1934.

By 1920, however, [[Ibn Saud]], the founder of the modern Saudi state, had begun to recoup the losses of the [[House of Saud]], and to unify most of the [[Arabian Peninsula|peninsula]] under his rule. As part of this campaign, he sent his [[Bedouin]] warriors also known as the [[Ikhwan]] to occupy Asir, and the ruler of the region, Hasan Al Idrissi, had to leave.<ref name="jlt81">{{cite thesis|author=Jerald L. Thompson|title=H. ST. John Philby, Ibn Saud and Palestine |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA111290.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129150100/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA111290.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=January 29, 2021|access-date=4 June 2021|location=University of Kansas|page=31 |degree=Master of Arts|date=1981}}</ref> Therefore, he asked for protection from [[Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din|Imam Yahya]], the ruler of Yemen and went there.<ref name="jlt81" /> From then on Asir has been controlled by the House of Saud, a situation formalized in 1934 with the signing of the [[Saudi–Yemeni war (1934)|Treaty of Taif]] between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Even then the region was still largely unknown to the West. In 1932, [[St John Philby]], one of the first Europeans to explore and map the peninsula, did enter Asir, but as he did not publish his observations until 1952, the area remained one of the blank spots on the world's map.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Monroe |first=Elizabeth |date=1973 |title=Arabia. St John Philby's Contribution to Pre-Islamic Studies |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41223273 |journal=Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies |volume=3 |pages=29–35 |jstor=41223273 |issn=0308-8421}}</ref> In 1935 ʿAsir was made a separate governorate.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=A. Nassir Saleh|title=The emergence of Saudi Arabian administrative areas: A study in political geography|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/8115/1/8115_5115.PDF|access-date=5 June 2021|location=Durham University|degree=PhD|date=October 1975|page=76}}</ref>

==== Mass shootings of Ethiopian refugees ====
Since 2014 refugees are killed after crossing the Saudi border by the [[General Directorate of Border Guard|Saudi Border Guard]]. Since 2023 at least several hundred Ethiopian refugees have been killed at the border between Yemen and the provinces [[Jazan Province|Jazan]], Asir and [[Najran]]. The Saudis have also used [[Explosive weapon|explosive weapons]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Beaumont |first=Peter |date=2023-08-21 |title='Fired on like rain': Saudi border guards accused of mass killings of Ethiopians |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/aug/21/fired-on-like-rain-saudi-border-guards-accused-of-mass-killings-of-ethiopians |access-date=2023-08-21 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-21 |title=Saudi Arabia: Mass Killings of Migrants at Yemen Border |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killings-migrants-yemen-border |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=Human Rights Watch |language=en}}</ref>

== Economy ==
Historically, Asir was known for producing [[coffee]], [[wheat]], [[alfalfa]], [[barley]], [[Senna (plant)|senna]], and [[frankincense]].<ref name="Prothero83">{{cite book|last=Prothero|first=G.W.|title=Arabia|year=1920|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|location=London|page=83|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/83/|accessdate=2016-08-15|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227051942/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/83/|archive-date=2016-12-27}}</ref><ref name="Prothero84">{{cite book|last=Prothero|first=G.W.|title=Arabia|year=1920|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|location=London|page=84|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/84/|accessdate=2016-08-15|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227051843/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/84/|archive-date=2016-12-27}}</ref><ref name="Prothero86">{{cite book|last=Prothero|first=G.W.|title=Arabia|year=1920|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|location=London|page=86|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/86/|accessdate=2016-08-15|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227051853/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/86/|archive-date=2016-12-27}}</ref> Wheat was grown in the summer and [[sesame]] has been grown in wetter areas of the region.<ref name="Prothero84" /><ref name="Prothero85">{{cite book|last=Prothero|first=G.W.|title=Arabia|year=1920|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|location=London|page=85|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/85/|accessdate=2016-08-15|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115143219/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/85/|archive-date=2016-11-15}}</ref> [[Straw]] was used to make mats, hats, and [[basket]]s. Tribes in the area also wove tents from straw.<ref name="Prothero99">{{cite book|last=Prothero|first=G.W.|title=Arabia|year=1920|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|location=London|page=99|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/99/|accessdate=2016-08-15|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822220849/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11767/view/1/99/|archive-date=2016-08-22}}</ref>

=== Modern development projects ===
In 2019, the Saudi government launched an infrastructure development project in ʿAsir Region. The project is expected to cost more than 1 billion Saudi Riyals. The provided projects will include health care, transportation and municipal services.<ref name="arabnews.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/1464761/saudi-arabia|title=Saudi Arabia to launch plan for multibillion infrastructure projects in Asir|date=2019-03-11|website=Arab News|language=en|access-date=2019-03-12}}</ref> The project is in line with the [[Saudi Vision 2030]] to diversify non-petroleum income and activate new resources in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="arabnews.com" />

In 2023, [[Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia|Crown Prince]] [[Mohammed bin Salman]] launched [[Soudah Peaks]] Project to develop a tourism destination in Saudi Arabia's highest peak, [[Jabal Soudah]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2023-09-25 |title=Saudi crown prince launches 'Soudah Peaks' masterplan
 |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2380196/business-economy |work=Arab News |location= |access-date=2024-03-12}}</ref> Soudah Peaks is a planned luxury mountain tourism destination located at 3,015 meters above sea level.

== Geography ==
{{See also|Asir Mountains}}
[[File:Living on the verge of Habala Valley.jpg|thumb|[[Habala]] Valley]]
The Asir Province is situated on a high plateau that receives more rainfall than the rest of the country and contains the country's highest [[Dhorm Mountain|peaks]], which rise to almost {{convert|3,000|m}} at [[Jabal Soudah]] near [[Abha]]. Though data is exceedingly sparse and unreliable, the average annual rainfall in the highlands probably ranges from {{convert|300|–|500|mm}}. It falls in two rainy seasons, the chief one being in March and April, with some rain in the summer. Temperatures are very extreme, with diurnal temperature ranges in the highlands the greatest in the world. It is common{{clarify|reason=What time of year? Summer, winter, spring, fall?|date=September 2015}} for afternoon temperatures to be over {{convert|30|C}}, yet mornings can be extremely frosty and [[fog]] can cut visibility to near zero percent. As a result, there is much more natural vegetation in ʿAsir than in any other part of Saudi Arabia, with sheltered areas even containing areas of dense coniferous forests, though more exposed ridges still are very dry. ʿAsir is home to many farmers who chiefly grow wheat and fruit crops. Irrigation has greatly expanded production in modern times. [[Asir National Park]] was established in 1981, and extends from the Red Sea coast through the western foothills to the Asir escarpment.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Things to do in Asir Saudi Arabia {{!}} Asir National Park |url=https://experiencesbyroam.com/destinations/asir |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=ROAM: Experience Undiscover Worlds |language=en}}</ref>

== Demographics ==
{{Historical populations
|align=center
|footnote=source:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.citypopulation.de/en/saudiarabia/cities/ |title=Saudi Arabia: Regions & Major Cities – Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref>
|1992|1,340,168
|2004|1,687,939
|2010|1,927,087
|2022|2,024,285
|percentages=pagr
}}

== Governorates ==
[[File:Abha1.jpg|thumb|right|The provincial capital is Abha]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ '''Governorates of Asir Province (Census 2022)'''<ref>{{cite news |title=Population Structure Statistics |url=https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/w/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9?category=127392&tab=436327 |newspaper=}}</ref>
! # !! Governorate !! Capital !! Population (2022)
|-
| 1 || [[Abha]] || Abha || 422,243
|-
| 2 || [[Muhayil]] || Muhayil || 230,537
|-
| 3 || [[Al-Namas|An-Namas]] || An-Namas || 38,409
|-
| 4 || [[Balqarn]] || Balqarn || 60,012
|-
| 5 || [[Bareq]] || Bareq || 44,880
|-
| 6 || [[Bisha]] || Bisha || 202,096
|-
| 7 || [[Khamis Mushait]] || Khamis Mushait || 601,305
|-
| 8 || [[Rijal Almaa]] || Rijal Almaa || 50,825
|-
| 9 || [[Tanomah]] || Tanomah || 17,756
|-
| 10 || [[Dhahran Al Janub|Dhahran Al-Janub]] || Dhahran Al-Janub || 32,099
|-
| 11 || [[Tathlith Governorate|Tathlith]] || Tathlith || 36,451
|-
| 12 || [[Sarat Ubaida Governorate|Sarat Ubaida]] || Sarat Ubaida || 57,123
|-
| 13 || [[Ahad Rafidah]] || Ahad Rafidah || 107,894
|-
| 14 || [[Al Majaridah|Al-Majaridah]] || Al-Majaridah || 48,302
|-
| 15 || Al-Harajah || Al-Harajah || 18,503
|-
| 16 || Tarib || Tarib || 22,298
|-
| 17 || Al-Amoah || Al-Amoah || 10,969
|-
| 18 || Al-Birk || Al-Birk || 22,583
|}

== List of governors ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Term of Office !! Monarch(s)
|-
| Turki bin Ahmed Al-Sudairi || 1900s – 8 June 1969<ref name=gss/> || [[Ibn Saud|Abdulaziz]]
|-
| Fahd bin Saad bin Abdul Rahman || 8 June 1969 – 1971<ref name=gss>{{cite thesis|author=Gary Samuel Samore|title=Royal Family Politics in Saudi Arabia (1953–1982)|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303295482|access-date=20 May 2021|location=Harvard University|page=260|date=1984|id={{ProQuest|303295482}} |degree=PhD}}</ref> || [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|Faisal]]
|-
| [[Khalid Al-Faisal]] || 1971 – 2007 || Faisal, [[Khalid of Saudi Arabia|Khalid]], [[Fahd of Saudi Arabia|Fahd]], [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia|Abdullah]]
|-
| [[Faisal bin Khalid Al Saud (born 1954)|Faisal bin Khalid]] || 2007 – 2018 || Abdullah, [[Salman of Saudi Arabia|Salman]]
|-
| [[Turki bin Talal Al Saud|Turki bin Talal]] || 2018 – present || Salman
|}

== See also ==
{{Portal|Saudi Arabia}}
* [[Asir Mountains]]
* [[Al Soudah]]
* [[Soudah Peaks]]
* [[Rijal Almaa]]
* [[Al-Qatt Al-Asiri]]
* [[Hejaz]]
* [[Sarawat Mountains|Sarat Mountains]]
* [[Sarat Ubaida Governorate]]
* [[South Arabia]]
* [[Saleh Al-Qadhi]]
* [[Tihamah]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite book |last=Mackey |first=Sandra |title=The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom |publisher=[[W.W. Norton and Company]] |location=New York |year=2002 |orig-year= 1987 |isbn=0-393-32417-6}} Updated Edition; Norton Paperback; pbk.

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* {{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Asir |volume=20 |page=443 |short=x}}
* [http://www.splendidarabia.com/destinations/asir-province/asir-national-park/ Asir National Park]: Splendid Arabia, An Online Guide to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

{{Geographic location
|Centre = ʽAsir Province
|North = [[Makkah Province]]
|Northeast = [[Riyadh Province]]
|East = [[Najran Province]]
|Southeast = {{flagicon|Yemen}} [[Saada Governorate]]
|South = {{flagicon|Yemen}} [[Saada Governorate]]
|Southwest = [[Jizan Province]]
|West = [[Makkah Province]]
|Northwest = [[Al Bahah Province]]
}}

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