Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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".
Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name. [a] It is an Arabic form of the Aramaic given name Yohanan (Hebrew: יְהוֹחָנָן, romanized: Yəhoḥānān, lit. 'Yahweh is gracious') of John the Baptist in Islam, who is considered a prophet.
There are many variations on this name and its spelling due to language transfer issues between old Spanish, Modern Spanish, and Arabic. [2] During the Middle Ages, the name Abu al-Faraj (Arabic: أبو الفرج, lit. 'Father of Faraj') was a title for many Arab and Jewish poets and scholars. [2] Notable people with the name Faraj include:
Sanaa, [a] [b] officially the Sanaa Municipality, [c] is the de jure capital and largest city of Yemen.The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate, but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit.
Zahran (Arabic: زهران) is the name of the shared common ancestor of Zahran. Etymological sources indicate that it is of Arabic Semitic origin, meaning "bright" and "pure". Etymological sources indicate that it is of Arabic Semitic origin, meaning "bright" and "pure".
Himyar [b] was a polity in the southern highlands of Yemen, as well as the name of the region which it claimed.Until 110 BCE, it was integrated into the Qatabanian kingdom, afterwards being recognized as an independent kingdom.
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 ...