Anss District
ʿAnss District, also spelled ʿAns, is a district of the Dhamar Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 119,124 inhabitants.History
The 9th-century writer Ya'qubi listed ʿAns as one of the 84 mikhlafs of Yemen. It was a tribal region named after ʿAns b. Mālik, and contained the towns of Thāt and Bishār.
