ELISARI(Ἐλισάροι), a people of Arabia Felix, mentioned by Ptolemy, at the straits of the Red Sea ( Bab-el-Mandeb), between the Cassaniti on the north, and the Homeritae on the east (6.7.7). They are doubtless identical with the El-Asyrtribe, a district of Yemen, described by Burchardt as the most numerous and warlike tribe of those mountains, and exercising considerable influence over all their neighbours( Notes on the Bedouins, &c. p. 245); and Niebuhr has marked on his map of Yemen, a town or village still named Elasera, on the hills above Sabbia WNW.(Forster, Arabia, vol. 1. p. 70, vol. ii. pp. 147, 148.)
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