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The history of this dynasty is obscure; they never exercised control over the highlands and Hadramawt, and did not control more than a coastal strip of the Yemen bordering the Red Sea. [61] A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz , while Hadramawt was an Ibadi stronghold and rejected all ...
This is a timeline of Yemeni history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Yemen and its predecessor states. To understand the context to these events, see History of Yemen. See also the List of rulers of Saba and Himyar, the list of Imams of Yemen and the list of presidents of Yemen
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.
Fighting broke out again in February and March 1979, with South Yemen allegedly supplying aid to rebels in the north through the National Democratic Front and crossing the border. [4] Southern forces made it as far as the city of Taizz before withdrawing. [5] [6] This conflict was also short-lived. [7] The war was only stopped by an Arab League ...
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's Houthis have joined the Israel-Hamas war raging more than 1,000 miles from their seat of power in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, declaring on Oct. 31 they had fired drones and missiles at ...
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 ...
Yemen history-related lists (1 C, 11 P) A. Archaeology of Yemen (2 C, 3 P) D. Defunct mass media in Yemen (1 C) E. Historical events in Yemen (22 C) F.