Yemen held its second multiparty parliamentary elections in April 1997.

In April 1997, Yemen held its second multiparty parliamentary elections.

The conquest held great significance for Yemen because the Ayyubids managed to unite the previous three independent states ( Zabid, Aden, and Sana ' a ) under their rule.

In 1224 a local dynasty, al-Yamani, gained control of Hadramaut from the Ayyubids who had held it loosely due to the troubled situation of their administration in Yemen proper.

He studied at Coimbra and, sent from Goa to Ethiopia as a missionary in 1589, he was held captive in Yemen for seven years, from 1590 to 1596, where he used his time to learn Arabic.

Before the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen merged with the northern Yemen Arab Republic, Al-Eryani held posts as Minister of Development ( 1974 – 1976 ), Minister of Education ( 1976 – 1978 ), Prime Minister ( 1980 – 1983 ), and Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1984 – 1990 ) in the northern YAR.

Also, though Yemen is traditionally held to be the homeland of Arabs, most of the population did not speak Arabic ( but instead South Semitic languages ) prior to the spread of Islam.

Muhammad Bashmila, a former secret prisoner, now free in Yemen, gave an interview to the BBC Newsnight programme, where he spoke of being transferred from Afghanistan to a detention center where it was cold, where the food appeared European and where evening prayers were held.

To achieve this, the shares held by Saudi Arabia were bought back by the government of Yemen in 1992.

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.

* Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi-a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention facility, in Cuba.

This haplogroup, rare in Europe, has its highest concentration in Ethiopia and in the Near East ( Jordan, Yemen ).

It is bordered by Somalia to the southeast, Eritrea on its northern, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea with Yemen on its eastern, and Ethiopia to the west and south.

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

In 1998 Lindh traveled to Yemen, and stayed for about 10 months to learn Arabic so that he could read the Qur ' an in its original language.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

In late 1987 Oman opened an embassy in Aden, South Yemen, and appointed its first resident ambassador to the country.

After North and South Yemen merged in May 1990, Oman settled its border disputes with the new Republic of Yemen on 1 October 1992.

In 1174, Saladin sent Turan-Shah to conquer Yemen to allocate it and its port Aden to the territories of the Ayyubid Dynasty.

It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya on its southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen on its north, the Indian Ocean at its east, and Ethiopia to the west.

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.

The Minaean Kingdom was centered in northwestern Yemen, with most of its cities laying along the Wadi Madhab.

The Rasulid dynasty ruled Yemen, with Zabid as its capital, from about 1230 to the 15th century.

Ottoman suzerainty was reestablished in northern Yemen in the late 19th century but its control was largely confined to cities, and the Zaidi imam's rule over Upper Yemen was formally recognized.

As a consequence, for the past 10 years Yemen has relied heavily on aid from multilateral agencies to sustain its economy.

The Republic of Yemen accepted responsibility for all treaties and debts of its predecessors, the YAR and the PDRY.

In February 1989, North Yemen joined Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt informing the Arab Cooperation Council ( ACC ), an organization created partly in response to the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and intended to foster closer economic cooperation and integration among its members.

After unification, the Republic of Yemen was accepted as a member of the ACC in place of its YAR predecessor.

Mihdhar and Hazmi were among the first group of participants selected for the operation, along with Tawfiq bin Attash and Abu Bara al Yemeni, al-Qaeda members from Yemen.

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.

For the first time in centuries, much of Greater Yemen was politically united.

The first attack took place on June 8, 1963 against Kawma, a village of about 100 inhabitants in northern Yemen, killing about seven people and damaging the eyes and lungs of twenty-five others.

The Soviet and Communist Chinese Aid Missions established in 1958 and 1959 were the first important non-Muslim presence in North Yemen.

In the first months of 2002 the Bush Administration approved sending about 100 Special Operations Forces to Yemen, a power base for Al Qaeda.

The U. S. first said it used targeted killing in November 2002, with the cooperation and approval of the government of Yemen.

One argument is that it was first grown in Ethiopia, with the explorer Sir Richard Burton suggesting that the plant was later introduced to Yemen from Ethiopia in the 15th century.

In " The Last Test " ( 1927 ), the first mention of Shub-Niggurath seems to connect her to Nug and Yeb: " I talked in Yemen with an old man who had come back from the Crimson Desert — he had seen Irem, the City of Pillars, and had worshipped at the underground shrines of Nug and Yeb — Iä!

Modern archaeological evidence increasingly supports Sheba being located in modern Yemen at or near the site of the famous Marib Dam, which was first built in 5 century BC They may have expanded at some point from Arabia into Africa to found trading posts in the lands currently called Eritrea and Somalia

Modern archaeological evidence increasingly supports Sheba being located in modern Yemen at or near the site of the famous Marib Dam, which was first built more than 2500 years ago.

There appears to be some evidence for the presence of matrilineality in pre-Islamic Arabia, in a very limited number of the Arabian peoples ( first of all among the Amirites of Yemen, and among some strata of Nabateans in Northern Arabia ); on the other hand, there does not seem to be any reliable evidence for the presence of matrilineality in Islamic Arabia, although the Fatimid Caliphate claimed succession from the Islamic Prophet Mohammad via his daughter Fatima.

The plane flew the hostage-takers first to Aden, South Yemen, where they were not accepted and then to Syria.

The first part is < tt > YE </ tt >, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Yemen.

This was part of a larger movement of thousands of Jews from countries as widely spaced as Persia and Morocco, Yemen and Russia, who moved to Israel beginning in the first decade of the nineteenth century – and in even larger numbers after the conquest of the region by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1832 – all drawn by the expectation of the arrival of the Messiah in the Jewish year 5600, Christian year 1840, a movement documented in Arie Morgenstern's Hastening Redemption.

While there are no known traditions of matriarchal rule in Yemen during the early first millennium BC, the earliest inscriptions of the rulers of Dʿmt in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea mention queens of very high status, possibly equal to their kings.

For the first time the Arabian Peninsula and the Yemen was opened up to westerners.

The first pressing problem that Qaboos bin Said faced as Sultan was an armed communist insurgency from South Yemen, the Dhofar Rebellion ( 1965 – 1975 ).

Following the coup d ' état of 1969, the flag was replaced by the Pan-Arab red-white-black tricolor of the Arab Liberation Flag, first flown after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ( which also formed the basis of the flags of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen ).

As a growing youth Hasan saw his father on the battlefield defending Islam as well as preaching to a vast congregation of believers on the occasion of hajj and as a missionary of Islam to Yemen before retreating to a passive role in the matters of the state during the period of the first three caliphs after the death of his grandfather, Muhammad.

The last of three British Political Agents since 1939 stayed on as first Resident since 1859, the last again staying on in 1932 as first Chief Commissioner ; he was the only diplomatic representative to the various Arabian rulers who over time accepted British protectorate, but since the 1935 legal separation from British India was followed in 1937 by a reorganisation into an Eastern and a Western Aden Protectorate ( based at Mukallah and Lahej ; together covering all Yemen ), the British Representatives in each were styled British Political Officers

Coffee cultivation first took place in southern Arabia ; the earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the 15th century in the Sufi shrines of Yemen.