DAMAR, an extensive open town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen, and the capital of a district. It has a large castle, and also a university, which, according to Niebuhr, contained five hundred persons, who were taught to read the Koran. It contains five thousand houses. It is fifty-six miles north from Sana, and ninety-four north-east from Mocha. Long. 44. 12. E. Lat. 14. 32. N.