Yemen is a country in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea. It lies south of Saudi Arabia and west of Oman.
Yemen was a kingdom in the second Millennium BC before it came under successfully Egyptian, Roman and Ethiopian rule.
Yemen was known to the ancient Romans as Arabia Felix ("Happy Arabia" in Latin). They called it Happy Arabia because the area was so beautiful and powerful.
It adopted Islam in 628 AD. Since then, Yemenis have been staunch Muslims.
The historic town of Zabid was a centre of learning for the whole Arab and Islamic world. Algebra is said to have been invented there in the early 9th century by the little-known scholar Al-Jazari.
Ali al-Sulayhi, originally an Ismaili missionary, brought all of Yemen under the control of his Sulayhid dynasty before capturing Mecca in 1063.
Yemen formed part of the Ottoman Empire between 1538 and 1630 and it was occupied by Turkey in the 19th century.
The country was divided between The Ottoman Empire ( North Yemen) and the British Empire (South Yemen) in the early twentieth century.
The last king of Yemen, Iman Muhammad was killed in a military coup in 1962. The declaration of the new Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) provoked a civil war between royalist forces, assisted by Saudi Arabia, and Republicans, helped by Egypt. By 1967 the republicans, under Marshal Abdullah al-Sallal had won.
Later in 1967 Sallal was deposed while on a foreign visit and a republican council took over.
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HISTORY
Yemen was a kingdom in the second Millennium BC before it came under successfully Egyptian, Roman and Ethiopian rule.
Yemen was known to the ancient Romans as Arabia Felix ("Happy Arabia" in Latin). They called it Happy Arabia because the area was so beautiful and powerful.
It adopted Islam in 628 AD. Since then, Yemenis have been staunch Muslims.
The historic town of Zabid was a centre of learning for the whole Arab and Islamic world. Algebra is said to have been invented there in the early 9th century by the little-known scholar Al-Jazari.
Ali al-Sulayhi, originally an Ismaili missionary, brought all of Yemen under the control of his Sulayhid dynasty before capturing Mecca in 1063.
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Yemen formed part of the Ottoman Empire between 1538 and 1630 and it was occupied by Turkey in the 19th century.
The country was divided between The Ottoman Empire ( North Yemen) and the British Empire (South Yemen) in the early twentieth century.
The last king of Yemen, Iman Muhammad was killed in a military coup in 1962. The declaration of the new Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) provoked a civil war between royalist forces, assisted by Saudi Arabia, and Republicans, helped by Egypt. By 1967 the republicans, under Marshal Abdullah al-Sallal had won.
Later in 1967 Sallal was deposed while on a foreign visit and a republican council took over.
Despite having been united for centuries, modern Yemen was actually divided into two countries – South Yemen and North Yemen – until 1990.
The First Yemenite War of 1972 and Second Yemenite War of 1979 were short military conflicts between the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen). Both lasted three weeks and two days, had no winners or territorial changes, and both resulted in the two Yemens pledging to unify.
On May 22, 1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merged to create the Republic of Yemen. Thousands of people took to the streets, chanting "Unity is power."
The Flag of Yemen was adopted on May 22, 1990. It is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab nationalism was a dominant theme.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the first president of the new republic until his resignation in 2012.
After President Saleh stepped down, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi was formally elected president on February 21, 2012 in a one-candidate election in September 2014, the Houthis took over Yemen's capital Sana'a, later declaring themselves the national government after a coup d'état; This resulted in a new civil war and a Saudi-led military intervention aimed at restoring Hadi's government.
In 2019, the United Nations reported that Yemen is the country with the most people in need of humanitarian aid with 24.1 million.
Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the Arabian Peninsula (after Saudi Arabia), occupying 527,970 square kilometres (203,850 square miles).
If all the world's countries swapped land masses according to their population sizes, the Yemen is one of four that wouldn't move. The other three countries are the United States, Brazil, and Ireland.
Sana'a is one of five capital cities with an apostrophe in its names. The others are N'Djamena (the capital of Chad), St John's (Antigua and Barbuda), St George's (Grenada) and Nuku'alofa (Tonga).
In Yemen, 85.1 per cent of adult males are literate but only 55 per cent of females. This is the world’s highest male-female discrepancy rate.
The old walled city of Shibam, is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city, which has been inhabited at least since the 3rd century is one of the oldest examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction, containing ten storey buildings made of earth, mud and unbaked bricks. Today, Shibam has a population of 7000 living on 0.03 square km (three times as dense as the most crowded Wards of London), with houses clustered around the five public squares.
Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of Yemen, while Yemeni Arabic is used as the vernacular.
About 65% of the Muslim population is Sunni and 35% is Shia, according to the International Religious Freedom Report.
A trip to the barbers in Yemen can provide more than a haircut. Circumcisions to order can also be supplied on the premises.
The country's main export commodities are crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish, liquefied natural gas.
Mocha is a drink in which coffee and chocolate are mixed. The word mocha is actually derived from Mocha, a port in Yemen on the Red Sea.
The Flag of Yemen was adopted on May 22, 1990. It is essentially the Arab Liberation Flag of 1952, introduced after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 in which Arab nationalism was a dominant theme.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the first president of the new republic until his resignation in 2012.
After President Saleh stepped down, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi was formally elected president on February 21, 2012 in a one-candidate election in September 2014, the Houthis took over Yemen's capital Sana'a, later declaring themselves the national government after a coup d'état; This resulted in a new civil war and a Saudi-led military intervention aimed at restoring Hadi's government.
In 2019, the United Nations reported that Yemen is the country with the most people in need of humanitarian aid with 24.1 million.
FUN YEMEN FACTS
Yemen is the second-largest Arab sovereign state in the Arabian Peninsula (after Saudi Arabia), occupying 527,970 square kilometres (203,850 square miles).
If all the world's countries swapped land masses according to their population sizes, the Yemen is one of four that wouldn't move. The other three countries are the United States, Brazil, and Ireland.
Sana'a is one of five capital cities with an apostrophe in its names. The others are N'Djamena (the capital of Chad), St John's (Antigua and Barbuda), St George's (Grenada) and Nuku'alofa (Tonga).
In Yemen, 85.1 per cent of adult males are literate but only 55 per cent of females. This is the world’s highest male-female discrepancy rate.
The old walled city of Shibam, is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city, which has been inhabited at least since the 3rd century is one of the oldest examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction, containing ten storey buildings made of earth, mud and unbaked bricks. Today, Shibam has a population of 7000 living on 0.03 square km (three times as dense as the most crowded Wards of London), with houses clustered around the five public squares.
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| Shibham By Jialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org |
Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of Yemen, while Yemeni Arabic is used as the vernacular.
About 65% of the Muslim population is Sunni and 35% is Shia, according to the International Religious Freedom Report.
A trip to the barbers in Yemen can provide more than a haircut. Circumcisions to order can also be supplied on the premises.
The country's main export commodities are crude oil, coffee, dried and salted fish, liquefied natural gas.
Mocha is a drink in which coffee and chocolate are mixed. The word mocha is actually derived from Mocha, a port in Yemen on the Red Sea.
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| Coffee plantation in Yemen. By Mufaddalqn |
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