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Country
  
Yemen

Local time
  
Sunday 9:49 PM

Governorate
  
Hadhramaut

Number of airports
  
1


Time zone
  
Yemen Standard Time (UTC+3)

Weather
  
25°C, Wind SE at 16 km/h, 68% Humidity

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Say'un — (also transliterated as Saywun or Seiyun; Arabic: سيئون‎‎  [seːˈwuːn], [sæjˈʔuːn]) — is a city in the Hadhramaut region, in the Hadhramaut Governorate, of Yemen.

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Map of Seiyun, Yemen

Seiyun in the hadhramaut 1966 archive film 97578


Description

The most prominent landmark in the cityscape and surrounding plain is the tall and large Seiyun Palace of the Sultan of Kathiri, built in 1920s. As of 2006 the city's population was 75,700.

The town is served by Seiyun Airport.

History

Postage stamps from the former Sultanate of Kathiri (Aden-Kathiri), that was within the British Aden Protectorate (1869 - 1963), were sometimes inscribed "Kathiri State of Seiyun."

References

Seiyun Wikipedia