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  Historical background
Yemen is one of the oldest inhabited regions in the world and Yemeni tradition and folklore abound with biblical references.
Yemen was the key to the Red Sea and it had a strategic position that the rulers of Cairo, Alexandria and Constantinople all wanted to posses.
Two events were of great importance for Yemen and still affect the Yemen today: the conversion of Yemenis to Islam in 628 AD and the foundation of the Zaidi Imamate in 897 by the Imam Yahya.
www.yemeni-dreams.com /history.php   (2532 words)

  
  Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Among Yemen’s larger towns are Şa‘dah, far to the north; Dhamār, Yarim, and Ibb, in the middle region; Al Mukallā, on the southern coast; and in Hadhramaut, the towns of Shibām, Say‘ūn, and Tarīm.
Yemen’s economy is primarily agricultural, and farming and livestock raising remain the chief livelihood for most of the population.
Yemen’s critical response to the presence of foreign military forces massed in Saudi Arabia led the Saudi government to expel 850,000 Yemeni workers; the return of the workers and the loss of remittance payments produced widespread unemployment and economic upheaval, which led in turn to domestic political unrest.
www.arab-world-information.com /yemen.htm   (6748 words)

  
 South Yemen (1967-1990)
On 11 February 1959 was created the Federation of South Arabian Emirates.
On 4 April 1962 the Federation was enlarged and renamed "Federation of South Arabia".
The South Yemen presidential flag was similar to the national flag, but with a coat of arms on the top, red stripe close to the hoist but not touching the blue triangle.
www.fotw.net /flags/ye-south.html   (557 words)

  
 Yemen. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Yemen is bordered on the north by Saudi Arabia, on the east by Oman, on the south by the Gulf of Aden, and on the west by the Red Sea.
One of the principal reasons for Southern Yemen’s merger with (Northern) Yemen in 1990 was the steady decline of its economy and the loss of Soviet political and economic support.
Yemen is governed under the constitution of 1991, as amended in 1994 and 2001.
www.bartleby.com /65/ye/Yemen.html   (2426 words)

  
 Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Yemen is composed of former North and South Yemen.
Yemen is a republic with a bicameral legislature.
Yemen is in the Middle East, in the south of Arabia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea, west of Oman and south of Saudi Arabia.
www.tocatch.info /en/YE.htm   (3003 words)

  
 Bank notes of South Yemen
The title of the Bank of Yemen (as opposed to the previous Currency Board) appears across the top of the note, under which is written the Arabic word for "Aden"; to the right of this, is the declaration in Arabic that "This note is legal tender for (the relevant denomination)".
Firstly, the illustration on the front of both notes is dominated by a boat on a body of water; on the notes of South Yemen it is a dhow on the harbour at Aden, while on the notes of the East African Currency Board it is a native sailing vessel on Lake Victoria.
Thus the 5 shillings of East Africa was equal to the 250 fils of South Yemen, 10 shillings was equal to 500 fils, 20 shillings was equal to 1 dinar (with both being equal to one pound sterling), and 100 shillings was equal to 5 dinars.
www.al-bab.com /yemen/soc/banknotes2.htm   (3093 words)

  
 South Yemen
In 1990, South Yemen had 2.6 million inhabitants and a territory of 332.970 km², divided into 6 governorates.
South Yemen was officially called People's Republic of South Yemen 1967-1970 and People's Democratic Republic of Yemen 1970-1990.
1990 May 22: South Yemen and North Yemen unites into Yemen, with Ali Abdullah Saleh of the north becoming its president, the president of South Yemen, Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, becomes Prime Minister, while Ali Salim al-Baidh, also of the south, becomes Vice President.
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 The Colonial Revolution and Civil War in South Yemen
The overthrow of British imperialism, which was forced to retreat from Aden and South Yemen because of the movement of the masses, marked the beginning of the revolution in South Yemen.
In a poor country like South Yemen with a small population it is clear that they could not stand on their own without the support of the other deformed workers' states.
Thus the fate of South Yemen is the fate of all the countries where deformed workers' states have been set up - progressive on the one hand with the abolition of landlordism and capitalism - but reactionary in the setting up of one-party dictatorships without democracy for the workers and peasants.
www.newyouth.com /archives/middleeast/civil_war_in_south_yemen.asp   (3556 words)

  
 Ancient Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Because of their prominence and prosperity, the states and societies of ancient Yemen were collectively called Arabia Felix in Latin, meaning "Happy Arabia." However, when the Romans occupied Egypt in the 1st century BC they made the Red Sea their primary avenue of commerce.
The weakened Yemeni regimes that followed the trading kingdoms were unable to prevent the occupation of Yemen by the Christian Abyssinian kingdom (modern Ethiopia) in the 4th and early 6th centuries AD and by the Sassanids of Persia in the later 6th century, just before the rise of Islam.
Yemen was ruled by a series of Muslim caliphs, beginning with the Umayyad dynasty, which ruled from Damascus in the latter part of the 7th century; Umayyad rule was followed by the Abbasid caliphs in the early 8th century (seeCaliphate).
www.cs.nmsu.edu /~fmohamed/ancient-ye.html   (2015 words)

  
 Yemen (01/06)
Yemen became a member of the Arab league in 1945 and the United Nations in 1947.
In the south, pre-independence economic activity was overwhelmingly concentrated in the port city of Aden.
Yemen is a member of the United Nations, the Arab League, and the organization of the Islamic conference.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35836.htm   (5213 words)

  
 Yemen
South Yemen believed it was the right time to impose Socialist unity based on Marxist ideology.
The people of the South had seen the development and political stability as well as the good foreign relations enjoyed by the North, where, in addition, conservatives who had violently opposed the South Yemen Marxist regime no longer regarded unity as "treason".
An agreement between North and South was finally reached, and in Aden on May 22, 1990, Saleh raised the flag of the new Independent Republic of Yemen.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /middleeast/00/yemen   (2882 words)

  
 Yemen - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It is bound by the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the south, Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the north.
South Yemen; In 1963 Aden was amalgamated with the British protectorate to form the Federation of South Arabia which resulted in rioting.
Unified Yemen; In late 1989 a draft for a new constitution was announced and approved by both North and South Yemen.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/yemen.htm   (1370 words)

  
 k. North and South Yemen. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The leadership was drawn mainly from the prosperous merchant class of the port of Aden, which was flourishing because of greatly increased commercial traffic.
Founding of the South Arabian League, consisting of notables from South Yemen who desired a greater measure of autonomy from the British.
Appearance in South Yemen of the People's Socialist Party, which drew its strength from trade union activism.
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 History of Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
By the 16th century and again in the 19th century, north Yemen was part of the Ottoman empire, and in some periods its Imams exerted suzerainty over south Yemen.
South Arabia, including Aden, was declared independent on November 30, 1967, and was renamed the People's Republic of South Yemen.
Yemen held its first direct presidential elections in September 1999, electing President Ali Abdallah Saleh to a 5-year term in what were generally considered free and fair elections.
www.historyofnations.net /asia/yemen.html   (1672 words)

  
 Facts about Yemen
The country is situated on the strategically important south west part of the Arabian Peninsula.
It includes the land of former Yemen Arab republic (YAR or North Yemen) and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen) and islands with the most important Perim, Soqotra and Kamaran.
It's because of high mountain ridges laying parallel to the coast and trapping the moisture from winds blowing in from the nearby seas, that the country does not suffer the lack of water.
www.yemeni-dreams.com /facts.php   (1006 words)

  
 South Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Yemen is a term currently used to designate both the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1970-1990) and its predecessor, the People's Republic of South Yemen (1967-1970), that exercised sovereignty over the territory that is now the southern part of the state of Yemen in southern Arabia.
The term only came into general use when the Federation of South Arabia and the Protectorate of South Arabia jointly gained independence from Britain as the People's Republic of South Yemen in 1967, making a distinction from the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) to the north necessary.
Alternate forms were "Yemen (Aden)" for South Yemen and "Yemen (Sanaa)" for North Yemen after their respective capital cities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Yemen   (169 words)

  
 Yemen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remittances from Yemenis working abroad and foreign aid paid for perennial trade deficits.
The country's relations with Saudi Arabia were defined by the Taif Agreement of 1934, which delineated the northernmost part of the border between the two kingdoms and set the framework for commercial and other intercourse.
South Arabian Semitic languages family tree from SIL's Ethnologue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yemen   (3029 words)

  
 Yemen
Territorial Disputes: North Yemen (Sana) claimed the Kamaran Islands and Perim Island held by South Yemen; sections of the boundary with North Yemen indefinite or undefined; no defined boundary with Saudi Arabia; Administrative Line with Oman.
Territorial Disputes: North Yemen (Sana) claimed the Kamaran Islands and Perim Island held by South Yemen; sections of the boundary with South Yemen indefinite or undefined; section of boundary with Saudi Arabia.
Territorial Disputes: Saudi Arabia still maintains the concrete-filled pipe as a security barrier along sections of the border with Yemen in 2004 to stem illegal cross-border activities; Yemen protests Saudi erection of a concrete-filled pipe as a security barrier in 2004 to stem illegal cross-border activities in sections of the boundary.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Yemen.html   (2338 words)

  
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 Middle East Internet Directory - Country Statistics - Yemen
Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oil production, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998.
Yemen has embarked on an IMF-supported structural adjustment program designed to modernize and streamline the economy, which has led to foreign debt relief and restructuring.
Aided by higher oil prices in 1999-2000, Yemen worked to maintain tight control over spending and implement additional components of the IMF program.
www.middleeastdirectory.com /cs_yemen.htm   (1141 words)

  
 Yemen
Background: North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918.
Ali Abdallah SALIH (since 22 May 1990, the former president of North Yemen, assumed office upon the merger of North and South Yemen); Vice President Maj. Gen.
Economy - overview: Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oil production, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/arabs/yemen.html   (1263 words)

  
 Yemen
Yemen joined the League of Arab States as a charter member in 1945.
In 1968, the Yemen Democratic Republic (PDRY) was also admitted to membership
Elections: House of Representatives: (next to be held November 1992); seats - (301); note - the 301 members of the new House of Representatives come from North Yemen's Consultative Assembly (159 members), South Yemen's Supreme People's Council (111 members), and appointments by the New Presidential Council (31 members)
faculty.winthrop.edu /haynese/mlas/yemen.html   (285 words)

  
 The Banknotes of South Yemen (part of the Reference Site for Islamic Banknotes)
The Banknotes of South Yemen (part of the Reference Site for Islamic Banknotes)
The definitive work on the bank notes issued in Yemen is '
are constructed for the notes issued in South Yemen.
www.islamicbanknotes.com /southyemen.htm   (74 words)

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