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Yemen map. The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen was an Asian country. The country, which remained in southwestern Arabia, had the Red Sea in the west, Saudi Arabia in the north, Aden Protectorate under British protection in the south, Aden Colony, Oman in the east, Bab-el-Mandeb strait in the southwest.
Yemen, [a] officially the Republic of Yemen, [b] is a country in West Asia. [11] Located in southern Arabia , it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, and the Indian Ocean to the south, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea , Djibouti and Somalia across the Horn of Africa .
An enlargeable topographic map of Yemen. Geography of Yemen. Yemen is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Southwest Asia; Middle East. Arabian Peninsula; Time zone: UTC+03; Extreme points of Yemen High: Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb 3,666 m (12,028 ft) Low: Arabian Sea 0 m; Land boundaries: 1,746 km Saudi ...
Little is known about ancient Yemen and how exactly it transitioned from nascent Bronze Age civilizations to more trade-focused caravan kingdoms. Sabaean gravestone of a woman holding a stylized sheaf of wheat, a symbol of fertility in ancient Yemen. The Sabaean Kingdom came into existence from at least the 11th century BC. [4]
North Yemen (Arabic: اليمن الشمالي, romanized: al-Yaman al-šamāliyya) is a term used to describe the Kingdom of Yemen (1918-1962), the Yemen Arab Republic (1962-1990), [3] and the regimes that preceded them and exercised sovereignty over that region of Yemen. [4] Its capital was Sanaa from 1918 to 1948 and again from 1962 to 1990.
In the 20th century, Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, King of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (North Yemen) attempted to unify Yemen but only managed to consolidate his control in Upper Yemen, Lower Yemen, Marib, and Lower Tihamah. He expressed his claim to Aden and the Aden Protectorate in treaties, such as in the Italo-Yemeni Treaty of 1926.
A map of Yemen's Governates and Districts. The administrative division of Yemen consists of two main divisions (governorates and districts). There are 22 governorates, including the capital Sana'a (Amanat Al Asima) and Socotra Archipelago.
Qataban (Qatabanian: 𐩤𐩩𐩨𐩬, romanized: QTBN, Qatabān) was an ancient South Semitic-speaking kingdom of South Arabia (ancient Yemen) that existed from the early 1st millennium BCE to the late 1st or 2nd centuries CE.