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Socotra, [a] also known as Saqatri, [b] is a Yemeni island in the Indian Ocean.Situated between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea, it lies near major shipping routes.. Socotra is the largest of the six islands in the Socotra archipelago as it comprises around 95% of the landmass of the archipel
Socotra is the easternmost approximately 380 km south of the Arabian Peninsula and 225 km east of Cape Guardafui. Samhah and Darsah, known as The Brothers, are southwest of Socotra and east of Abd al Kuri. [13] The islands are composed largely of limestone. The Hajhir Mountains on Socotra have areas of exposed granite. [13]
Since Yemeni unification in 1990, Socotra has been a part of the Republic of Yemen. Socotra was raged by the 26 December 2004 tsunami causing a child dead and 40 fishing boats wrecked although the island is 4,600 km (2,858 mi) far away from tsunami epicentre off the west coast of Aceh, Indonesia. [31]
The Mahra Sultanate, known in its later years as the Mahra State of Qishn and Socotra (Arabic: الدولة المهرية للبر وسقطرى Al-Dawlah al-Mahrīyah lil-Barr wa-Suquṭrā) or sometimes the Mahra Sultanate of Ghayda and Socotra (Arabic: سلطنة المهرة في الغيضة وسقطرى Salṭanat al-Mahrah fī al-Ghayḍah wa-Suquṭrā) was a sultanate that included ...
The Soqotri primarily inhabit the Socotra Archipelago, on Socotra island and the Abd al Kuri, Darsah and Samhah districts of the Amanat Al Asimah governorate, Yemen. [1] According to Ethnologue, there are an estimated 71,400 Soqotri. As of the last 1990 Socotra census, they numbered around 57,000. [1] Most Soqotri are Sunni Muslim. [1]
Politically, Socotra and most of the other islands are part of Yemen, and constitute Socotra Governorate. Geographically, Socotra and the rest of its archipelago are part of Africa – a geologic and biogeographic extension of the Horn of Africa. [7] The archipelago is an ancient continental fragment.
Before an 1876 protection treaty with the British, the island of Socotra was barely governed by the ruling Mahra Sultanate. Socotra was merely used as a tax farm by the sultan, who annually sent a relative to collect taxes in the form of ghee. These taxes were primarily collected from the villages of Hadibu, Qād̨ub, and Qulensya. During this ...
Soqotri (/sḳʌ́ṭri/; Soqotri: ماتڸ دسقطري, romanized: mɛ́taḷ di-saḳɔ́ṭri; Arabic: اللغة السقطرية, romanized: al-luḡah al-suquṭriyyah) is a South Semitic language spoken by the Soqotri people on the island of Socotra and the two nearby islands of Abd al Kuri and Samhah, in the Socotra archipelago, in the Guardafui Channel.