In his book The Lost Ark of the Covenant ( 2008 ), Parfitt also suggests that the Ark was taken to Arabia following the events depicted in the Second Book of Maccabees, and cites Arabic sources which maintain it was brought in distant times to Yemen.

Eritrea also has very tense relations with all of its neighbors: Sudan, Ethiopia, Yemen, Somalia and Djibouti.

Al-Sufi also identified the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible from Yemen, though not from Isfahan ; it was not seen by Europeans until Magellan's voyage in the 16th century.

Although his writings on Jewish law and ethics were met with acclaim and gratitude from most Jews even as far off as Spain, Iraq and Yemen, and he rose to be the revered head of the Jewish community in Egypt, there were also vociferous critics of some of his rulings and other writings particularly in Spain.

: See also Castes in Yemen

From this base, Sulayman Pasha managed to take control of the whole country of Yemen, also taking Sa ' na.

Due to its proximity to the oil-rich Gulf Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the nation is also believed to contain substantial unexploited reserves of oil.

See also: Aden, Aden Protectorate, Federation of South Arabia, Hadhramaut, and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

In 2009, armed insurgency also resumed in southern Yemen, led by South Yemen Movement successors.

However, relations have also been tense in recent years, particularly for the alleged Iranian support to Houthi rebels in Yemen, as part of the Sa ' dah insurgency.

Somalia has also over the centuries seen successive waves of immigration from Yemen, with Hadhrami settlers being instrumental in helping to consolidate the Muslim community in the coastal Banaadir region in particular.

Yemen is also a member of the following organizations:

Yemen is also a party to environmental conventions on Biodiversity, Desertification, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, and Ozone Layer Protection.

The current flags of Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen are also based on the Arab Liberation Flag of horizontal red, white, and black bands.

The flag of Yemen | flag of the former Yemen Arab Republic also looked like the UAR's flag, due largely to Egypt's support for the North Yemeni Revolution of 1962, and North Yemen's former membership of the United Arab States ( 1958 – 1961 ).

The list also includes a considerable number of states that ceased to exist during the 1990s, most notably the German Democratic Republic, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Yemen, People's Republic of Kampuchea ( today: Cambodia ) and Zaire ( today: Democratic Republic of the Congo ).

Care should also be taken to avoid minefields left over from Yemen ’ s civil wars.

The USCG has also provided 26 mobile training team visits and 54 resident training slots in USCG schools to the Yemen Coast Guard .”

Yemen also has some lighthouses that are maintained for sea navigation by the Yemen Ports Authority, an extension of the “ Port of Aden .” A list of the lighthouses, photographs and descriptions of their flashing can be seen at:.

The Bab-el-Mandeb ( variously transliterated Mandab or Mandib, and with article " el -" given also as " al -", with or without connecting dashes ) meaning " Gate of Grief " in Arabic ( باب المندب ), is a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti and Eritrea, north of Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, and connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

The Bab-el-Mandab is also a sub-region in the Arab League, which includes Djibouti, Yemen, Somalia and the Comoros Islands.

An autobiography of a British officer, honorary colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, David de Crespigny Smiley LVO, OBE, MC, who served in the Special Operations Executive during World War II ( Albania, Thaïland ) and was a MI6 officer after war ( Poland, Malta, Oman, Yemen ).

The Arab Liberation Flag served as the inspiration for the flags of both North and South Yemen prior to unification, and the current flags of Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, and Syria.

After the war, Prince Khalid served as the chairman of the Saudi delegation at the Taif Conference with Yemen in 1934.

Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ( 2 January 1939 – 22 August 2011 ) was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Ghani also served as Vice President of the Yemen Arab Republic and as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic twice.

When Aden in southern Yemen seceded in May 1994, al-Attas served as the Prime Minister of the secessionist Democratic Republic of Yemen until the rebellion ended less than two months later.

Ali Salim al-Beidh (, ) ( born 1939 ) is a Yemeni politician who served as the General Secretary of the Yemeni Socialist Party ( YSP ) in South Yemen and as Vice President of Yemen following unification in 1990.

Abdul Karim Abdullah al-Arashi ( 1 December 1934-10 June 2006 ) () was a Yemeni politician who served as the President of the Yemen Arab Republic briefly from 24 June to 18 July 1978.

He also served as Vice President of Yemen Arab Republic from 1978 and as speaker of the Constituent People's Assembly.

Mohsin Ahmad Alaini () ( born 1932 ) served as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic five times between 1967 and 1975.

He served as minister of religious endowments under northern Yemen's first national government and is the only civilian to have led northern Yemen.

He served as the first President of the Yemen Arab Republic from 27 September 1962 to 5 November 1967.

She served in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and as an alternate on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen.

After spending time as an officer in the British Army ( he served with the Parachute Regiment in Aden, Yemen ), and then racing in various series with an AC Cobra and a Chevron, Purley raced in Formula Three with some success including three wins at Chimay between 1970 and 1972.

Born in Astal, Samallot, in the Al Minya Governorate in 1919, he served in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, took part in the 1952 Revolution and commanded the Egyptian Army in the Suez Crisis, the North Yemen Civil War and the Six-Day War.

In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, Yemen was involved in a series of border skirmishes along the disputed Violet Line, a 1914 Anglo-Ottoman demarcation that served to separate Yemen from the Aden Protectorate.

Samoa thus become the first territory in nearly 40 years to change which side of the road is driven on, the most recent to change being Nigeria, Ghana and Yemen.

Muslim writers Ibn al-Athir and later al-Maqrizi wrote that the reasoning behind the conquest of Yemen was an Ayyubid fear, that should Egypt fall to Nur al-Din, they could seek refuge in a faraway territory.

However, when Turan-Shah was transferred from his governor post in Yemen in 1176, uprisings broke out in the territory and were not quelled until 1182 when Saladin assigned his other brother Tughtekin Sayf al-Islam as governor of Yemen.

These tribes extend into territory that today lies in Yemen.

North Yemen is a term used to designate the Yemen Arab Republic ( 1962 – 1990 ), its predecessor, the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen ( 1918 – 1962 ), and their predecessors that exercised sovereignty over the territory that is now the north-western part of the state of Yemen in southern Arabia.

It describes a large territory, " from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates ", comprising all of modern-day Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, U. A. E, Oman, Yemen, most of Turkey, and all the land east of the Nile river.

The Houthi also stated that the Yemen government had used Saudi territory to bomb targets.

In 1901 the Regiment deployed to the British territory of Aden ( now part of the Yemen ), also having its name changed to the 1st Grenadier Bombay Infantry.

At its greatest extent, the Bombay Presidency comprised the present-day state of Gujarat, the western two-thirds of Maharashtra state, including the regions of Konkan, Desh, and Kandesh, and northwestern Karnataka state of India ; it also included Pakistan's Sindh province ( 1843-1935 ) and the British territory of Aden in Yemen ( 1839-1939 ).

Within these limits were the Portuguese settlements of Goa, Daman and Diu, and the native state of Baroda which has direct relations with the government of India ; while politically Bombay included the territory of Aden, in present-day Yemen.

In January 1967 the regiment arrived in Aden -- a British territory in the Middle East, in what is now the Yemen, that was experiencing turbulent times shortly before it achieved independence from the British — where it performed internal security duties until it returned home later that year

The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Afghanistan, Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Yemen.

Despite this loss, Aksum still held territory in South Arabia, as evidenced by inscriptions of Luha ` atht Yarhum ( r. c. 230 ), which detail at least one known clash with hbšt troops in Yemen after GDRT's reign.

His reign resulted in the control of much of western Yemen, such as the Tihama, Najran, Ma ` afir, Zafar ( until c. 230 ), and parts of Hashid territory around Hamir in the northern highlands.

Today the territory forms part of the Republic of Yemen.

These treaties, together with a number of other minor agreements, created the Aden Protectorate that extended well east of Aden to Hadhramaut and included all of the territory that would become South Yemen except for the immediate environs and port of the British colonial capital, Aden city, which together with several offshore islands was known as the Aden Colony, the only part where no Arab ruler retained jurisdiction.

From 1967, it was a postal territory of South Yemen, from 1972 of North Yemen, and from 1990 of the reunified Republic of Yemen.

The territory was absorbed into the newly independent People's Republic of South Yemen.