The governorate of Rima al-Jabain is one of the oldest and most ancient regions of Yemen that the Yemeni people have inhabited since the dawn of his history on this land, and one of the most famous cities in Yemen and the most important for the state.
The naming of the governorate of Rayma al-Jubain is the center of al-Jbeen, the capital of the governorate and its main directorates, so the well-known name of Rima al-Jabain is known to us in Yemen, but the more correct and well-known in Yemen is the name of the governorate of Rayma only. Throughout history, its name has been associated with other names. Finally, the governorate settled in the name of the governorate of Rima only, and Reem is a name derived from al-Reem, which is al-Ghazal, and it was said that this name was given to it for the kindness and gentleness of its people and also for the beauty of its nature. About the history of Rimma al-Jabain
The history of the governorate, according to the oldest information we have received from the news reports about it, dates back to the third century B.C., and Al-Hamdani believes that the first home of the Yemeni people was in this land and its surroundings, and Al-Hamdani had inherited a lot of writings in which he described Rimma and the beauty of nature in it, its mountains, forts, and monuments areas in it. It also gave us a comprehensive view of its religion and the tribes inhabited by its abundance of crops and animals, and inscriptions were found in the mountains dating back to the Kingdom of Qataban, and some of these inscriptions indicated the existence of two temples in Jabal al-Damar to the god uncle of the god of the Qabbaniya state, and after the time of the Qabbaniya state had passed, he took control of Reema. Sabaeans, which became one of the most important regions of the Kingdom of Sheba, and after that the Kingdom of Himyar relied mainly on Rimma to support their state in Yemen, until the Islamic conquest reached it, and Reemah throughout its history was a region of conflict and conflicts due to its good climate, wonderful nature and fertile land, and it was also famous Over time, it produced large quantities of honey that abounds in its mountains. Information about the governorate of Raima al-Jubain, located in the middle of the western mountain range, and it shares its borders with the governorate of Hodeidah from the west and parts of it from the north, and the governorate of Dhamar from the south and from the east, and the capital Sana’a from the north and part of it from the east, and it is about 200 km from the capital. Rimma is only about 1.05% of the total population of the Republic of Yemen, and its total area is 1,915 square kilometers. It is divided into 6 main directorates: Bilad Al-Food, Al-Salafiya, Al-Jibin, Mizhar, Kisma and Al-Jaafariya. The governorate also includes a large number of archaeological areas, the most prominent of which are: the Great Mosque, the Ribat Day Mosque, the Al-Awar Mosque, the Goran Fort, the Masoud Fort, the Dunawh Fort, the Mushahm Fort, the Al-Tawila Fortress, Al-Qishla, and the Al-Ghra village, all of them in the capital of the governorate, Al-Jbeen District
As for the most prominent archaeological sites in the other directorates, they are: Jabal Zalamalam Castle, Jabal El Joun, the village of Al Baloul, Mahal Saba (the village of Al-Haqb), Jabal Aswad, and Al-Qaza’a Mosque, and other than this a lot of mosques, forts and historical villages that are rich in the governorate of Rimma or as Burma is famous Forehead.
