Bayt Baws

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|native_name = بيت بوس

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Bayt Baws ({{langx|ar|بيت بوس}} {{Transliteration|ar|Bayt Baws}}) is a historic village and fortress in Bani Matar District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen.{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Robert T.O. |title=Gazetteer of Historical North-West Yemen |date=1989 |publisher=Georg Olms AG |location=Germany |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SnMrAAAAMAAJ |access-date=5 February 2021}} It is a largely deserted Jewish settlement.{{cite web |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bayt-baws |title=Bayt Baws Sana'a, Yemen A nearly abandoned Jewish settlement perched atop a hill in the heart of Yemen. |work=Atlas Obscura |access-date=5 April 2021}} It is located to the south of Sanaa, in a strategic position on the western side of the Sanaa plain. It served as a locally important stronghold throughout the middle ages and was especially used as a staging point for campaigns against Sanaa. Its period of greatest significance was during the campaigns of Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, the first Imam of Yemen. According to tradition, Bayt Baws is named after a person named Dhū Baws, whose genealogy is given either as Dhū Baws b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān b. Zayd b. ‘Abd Il b. Sharḥabīl b. Marāthid b. Dhī Saḥar{{cite book |last1=Eagle |first1=A.B.D.R. |title=Ghayat al-amani and the life and times of al-Hadi Yahya b. al-Husayn: an introduction, newly edited text and translation with detailed annotation |date=1990 |publisher=Durham University |page=170 |url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6185/ |accessdate=5 February 2021}} or as Dhū Baws b. Barīl b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.