Jamra

Jamra (जामरा), a Jat tribe, of notably fine physique, found in Dera Ghazi Khan district in Pakistan. Probably aboriginal or immigrants from the eastward.

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Jamra = Zamareni (Pliny.vi.32).

Mention by Pliny

Pliny mentions Arabia.........the Ilisanitæ, the Bachilitæ, the Samnæi, the Amitei, with the towns of Nessa⁵⁵ and Cennesseris, the Zamareni, with the towns of Sagiatta and Canthace, the Bacascami, the town of Riphearma, the name by which they call barley, the Autei, the Ethravi, the Cyrei and the Mathatræi, the Helmodenes, with the town of Ebode, the Agacturi, dwelling in the mountains, with a town twenty miles distant, in which is a fountain called Ænuscabales⁵⁶, which signifies "the town of the camels."

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55 Agatharchides speaks of a town on the sea coast, which was so called from the multitude of ducks found there. The one here spoken of was in the interior, and cannot be the same.

56 Hardouin observes, that neither this word, nor the name Riphearma, above mentioned, has either a Hebrew or an Arabian origin.

Jamarposs village

• जमारपोस (जाट गोत्र - जामरा)) : जमारपोस नाम का गाँव झारखंड के पश्चिमी सिंहभूम जिले की मझगांव विकास-खंड में है।

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