: a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A. D.

* Amputation is used as a legal punishment in a number of countries, among them Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Islamic regions of Nigeria.

A 2008 New York Times report claims that Yemen has over 1 million of these discriminated and ostracized Al-Akhdam people, that is about 5 percent of Yemen population.

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.

The degree of Ezana's control over Yemen is uncertain.

Though there is little evidence supporting Aksumite control of the region at that time, his title, which includes king of Saba and Salhen, Himyar and Dhu-Raydan ( all in modern-day Yemen ), along with gold Aksumite coins with the inscriptions, " king of the Habshat " or " Habashite ," indicate that Aksum might have retained some legal or actual footing in the area.

The Axumite Kingdom is recorded once again as controlling part – if not all – of Yemen in the 6th century.

This dating is tentative, however, as the basis of the year 525 for the invasion is based on the death of the ruler of Yemen at the time, who very well could have been Kaleb's viceroy.

* 1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.

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.

Historically, some theocratic Islamic states known as imamates have been led by imams as head of state, such as in what is now Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.

Its advantages are most pronounced when the receiving country applies unprofitable exchange rate regulations ( as has been the case for many typical receiving countries such as Pakistan or Egypt ) or when the banking system in the receiving country is less complex ( e. g. due to differences in legal environment in places such as Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia ).

Aden is a major port in Yemen and controls ships entering the Red Sea.

For example, it is considered very unlikely that Ibn Battuta made a trip up the Volga River from New Sarai to visit Bolghar and there are serious doubts about a number of other journeys such as his trip to Sana ' a in Yemen, his journey from Balkh to Bistam in Khorasan and his trip around Anatolia.

In the Islamic regimes of Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, North Sudan and Yemen, homosexual activity is punished with the death penalty.

The death penalty is currently in place in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, northern Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen.

This coffee is prized as one component in the traditional " Mocha Java " blend, which pairs coffee from Yemen and Java.

Prehistoric migration of Homo sapiens is likely to have taken place around 100, 000 years ago and to have followed the coastlines from Africa along Yemen and the sea shores of Oman.

Archaeological sites in Yemen and Oman have yielded a stone tool style that is distinct from the East African tradition.

Oman is a country situated in Southwest Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and United Arab Emirates ( UAE ).

* 2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39

* 2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

In the 2nd century the Lakhum tribe, who lived in what is now Yemen, migrated north and founded the Lakhmid Kingdom along the southern coast.

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.

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

Yemen also served as an emergency territory, to which Saladin could flee in the event of an invasion by Nur ad-Din.

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:

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.