Najran Postal Code Is 66454, 66468

Najrān is a town and province located in southern Asir region of Saudi Arabia, near the border with Yemen. It has a rich history dating back to the Roman Empire, and was an important center for producing frankincense and myrrh from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. In 520 CE, an attack on the town by the Ḥimyarite king Yūsuf Asʾar Yathʾar led to the fall of his kingdom, and the intervention of Aksum. It's notable that the proximity of these events to the rise of Islam in Mecca, in both time and space, had an impact on the formative literature of the religion, in which it is reported that the Prophet Muhammad also reached an agreement of tolerance with Najrān's Christian community in an event known as the Mubāhalah. However, many of the town's inhabitants were deported to Iraq under the rule of ʿUmar. In the mid-20th century, Najrān was the subject of controversy between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, with the Treaty of Al-Ṭāʾif in 1934 giving it to Saudi Arabia, but the boundary was disputed for decades by Yemen. Now it is an agricultural area, known for producing dates and grains, and for stock raising. The town of Najrān is the southern terminus of highways from Mecca and Riyadh and has a population of around 298,288.