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HODEDA (Hodeida, Hadeda)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 556 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HODEDA (Hodeida, Hadeda) , a town in Arabia situated on the Red Sea
coast
  14 48' N. and 42 57' E. It lies on a
beach
  of muddy sand exposed to the southerly and westerly winds. Steamers anchor more than a mile from shore, and merchandize has to be transhipped by means of sambuks or native boats. But Hodeda has become the
chief
  centre of the maritime trade of Turkish
Yemen
 , and has superseded Mokha as the
great
  port of export of
South
  Arabian coffee. The town is composed of stone-built houses of several storeys, and is surrounded, except on the sea face, by a fortified enceinte. The population is estimated at 33,000, and contains, besides the Arab inhabitants and the Turkish officials and garrison, a considerable foreign
element
 , Greeks, Indians and African traders from the opposite
coast
 . There are consulates of
Great
  Britain, United States, France, Germany, Italy and
Greece
 . The steam tonnage entering and clearing the port in 1904 amounted to 78,700 tons, the highest hitherto recorded. Regular services are maintained with Aden, and with Suez, Massowa and the other Red Sea ports. Large dhows bring
dates
  from the Persian Gulf, and occasional steamers from Bombay
call
  on their way to Jidda with cargoes of grain. The imports for 1904 amounted in value to 467,000, the
chief
  items being piece goods, food grains and sugar; the exports amounted to 451,000, including coffee valued at 229,000.


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