6/20/2023 0 Comments Meeting of Two Seas by Saeed Malik![]() South Yemen remained a British protectorate as the Aden Protectorate until 1967 when it became an independent state and later, a Marxist-Leninist state. The Zaydi Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen was established after World War I before the creation of the Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. The country was divided between the Ottoman and British empires in the 1800s. Several dynasties emerged in the 9th to 16th centuries, such as the Rasulid dynasty. ![]() Islam spread quickly in the seventh century and Yemenite troops were crucial in the early Islamic conquests. Christianity arrived in the fourth century. Later in 275 AD, the Himyarite Kingdom was influenced by Judaism. In ancient times, Yemen was the home of the Sabaeans, a trading state that included parts of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. As of 2023, Yemen has an estimated population of 34.2 million. Its constitutionally stated capital, and largest city, is Sanaa. ![]() Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the Arabian Peninsula, occupying 555,000 square kilometres (214,000 square miles), with a coastline stretching about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles). It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and shares maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. ![]() Yemen ( / ˈ j ɛ m ən/ ( listen) Arabic: ٱلْيَمَن, romanized: al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in Western Asia. ![]()
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