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Yemen, [a] officially the Republic of Yemen, [b] is a country in West Asia. [12] Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the southeasten part of the Arabian sea to the east, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia across the Horn of Africa.
Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. [1] Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable population, a feature recognized by the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, who described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia, meaning "Fertile Arabia" or "Happy Arabia".
Ayman (Arabic: أيمن, also spelled as Aiman, Aimen, Aymen, or Eymen in the Latin alphabet) is an Arabic masculine given name. [3] It is derived from the Arabic Semitic root (ي م ن) for right, and literally means righteous, on the right, right-handed, blessed or lucky. [4] In Turkish, the name is spelled as Eymen. Eymen was the second most ...
In the 1st century BC, the Arabian city of Eudaemon (usually identified with the port of Aden, and meaning "good spirit" in the sense of angelic beings), [9] in Arabia Felix, was a transshipping port in the Red Sea trade. It was described in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (probably 1st century AD) as if it had fallen on hard times.
Yaman is a Turkish male given name and it means redoubtable, stalwart, intelligent, efficient, strong. [1] It's also Arabic male given name (يَمان) which refers to someone who is from Yemen and it means blessing and plenty of goodness.
A smaller number of modern-day Pakistanis are of Yemeni descent, their original ancestors having left Yemen for the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia over four centuries ago. [9] 350,000 Yemenite Jews live in Israel. In 2015, due to the conflict in Yemen, many have migrated to the northern coasts of Djibouti, Madagascar and Somalia.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Houthis الحوثيون The Sarkha, translated as' God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse be upon the Jews, Victory to Islam,' is the main political slogan of the Houthi movement. Also known as Ansar Allah Leaders Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (since 2004) Hussein al-Houthi ...
In Arabian folklore, Ya'rub was said to be one of greatest Arab kings; he was the first to rule the entire lands of Yemen (southwestern Arabia).He expelled or destroyed the remaining Adites (the ones who survived the destruction of their former kingdom) and consolidated the empire of Yemen, and gave to his brothers Oman and Hadhramaut.