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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 ".
Islam arrived in 630 CE and Yemen became part of the Muslim realm. The centers of the Old South Arabian kingdoms of present-day Yemen lay around the desert area called Ramlat al-Sab'atayn, known to medieval Arab geographers as Ṣayhad. The southern and western Highlands and the coastal region were less influential politically.
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.
Sheba, [a] or Saba, [b] was an ancient South Arabian kingdom in modern-day Yemen [3] whose inhabitants were known as the Sabaeans [c] or the tribe of Sabaʾ which, for much of the 1st millennium BCE, were indissociable from the kingdom itself. [4]
The British presence continued until 1967 when the island became part of the People's Republic of South Yemen. Before the handover, the British government had put forward before the United Nations a proposal for the island to be internationalized [11] [12] as a way to ensure the continued security of passage and navigation in the Bab-el-Mandeb ...
Yahya himself spent some time in Tabaristan, [32] before being invited to Yemen in 893/4 to settle tribal disputes in the north of the country. [33] This first sojourn failed, and he had left, but in 897 he returned and quickly established a state based in Sa'ada, in the northern highlands, with himself as imam with the title al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq ...
In 2013, Germany exported goods worth 227 million euros to Yemen and imported goods worth 4 million euros in return. [7] With the start of the civil war in 2015, the exchange of goods between the two countries decreased. In 2021, the bilateral trade volume was around 180 million euros, placing Yemen 123rd in the ranking of Germany's trading ...
Arrival of ISIL to Yemen [12] First Sa'dah War (2004) Yemen: Houthis: Government victory. Death of Hussein al-Houthi; Second Sa'dah War (2005) Yemen: Houthis: Government victory. Houthis surrender after signing a deal [13] Third Sa'dah War (2005–2006) Yemen: Houthis: Government victory. Fighting ends before Presidential election; Fourth Sa ...