Elisari
Ἐλισάροι
Eth. Elisari (Eth. 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-Asyr tribe, 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. i. p. 70, vol. ii. pp. 147, 148.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.