title: Anss District
text: # Anss District
  
  ʿAnss District, also spelled ʿAns, (Arabic: مديرية عنس) 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 (administrative divisions) of Yemen. It was a tribal region named after ʿAns b. Mālik, and contained the towns of Thāt and Bishār.
  
  