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Our comprehensive guide will assist you traveling in Yemen and
through the other Middle East countries.
The ancient traveler, the hoopoe, will show you a region which jumped
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Official name |
Al-Jamhuriya
Al-Yamaniya (Republic of Yemen) |
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Head of State |
President Ali Abdullah Saleh |
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Area |
527,968 square km |
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Population |
18.28
million (2000); annual growth: 3.4 per cent (1999) |
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Capital |
Sana'a (over 1 million inhabitants in 1998) |
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Official language |
Arabic, English is spoken by many businessmen |
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Currency |
Rial
(YR) = 100 Fils |
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Exchange rate |
YR199
per US$; YR280 per Euro (December 2007) |
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GDP per capita |
US$398 (1999) |
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GDP real growth |
6.50%
(2000); 2.2% (2001) |
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Weights/ measures |
Metric system |
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Time |
GMT
plus 3 hours |
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Legal system |
Based
on Islamic and English common law and local tribal customs |
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Country phone code |
967 |
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Short
historical overview
The ancient history of Yemen can be
divided into two main periods. The first era begins in the first millennium
BC and ends with the decline of the eastern cultural centers towards the end
of the pre - Christian era . This was time during the rise of the frankincense
and myrrh trade which the Southern Arabian kingdoms - Sheba, Maeen, Qataban,
Ausan and Hadhramaut - had monopolized. The frankincense route, one of the most
ancient trade routes, led from South Arabia to Ghaza in Palestine with about a
distance of distance of 3,400 km. This monopoly ended in the first century when
the land route was losing it’s importance and was finally replaced by a direct
sea route between Egypt & India.
The second era begins with the founding of the
Himyarite Kingdom and the rise of centers of civilization in the high plateau
with it’s basins and unconquerable mountains. It ends with the decay of these
cultures i.e. it lasts from the first to the sixth century A.D.. This was
time when the Islamic period started.
The Prophet was still alive when Islam came to
Yemen. With the conversion of Badhan, the Persian Governor of Yemen from 628
until 630 A.D., to Islam, many of the sheikhs and their tribes converted to
Islam. It was during this period that Al-Janad Mosque and the Great Mosque in
Sana’a was built . Active missionary work in Yemen only became possible after
the conquest of Mecca in 630 A.D.
Between the eighth and the fourteenth century Yemen was ruled by a series
of different dynasties in Sana'a, Zabeed, Saada, Djibla, Rada' and Taiz.
In the
mid fifteenth century the Mamelukes of Egypt lost power to the Ottomans
(Turks). During this period the town of Al-Makha (Moka or Mocca) on the Red sea
coast, became the most important coffee port in the world.
The
North/South division of Yemen took shape in the nineteenth century when
the British occupied Aden and established control over its hinterland,
restricting Ottoman influence to the North.
For much of the twentieth century, North
and South developed in very different ways; the North under the rule of
hereditary Imams; the South under British colonial rule or protection.
1962 - revolution in the North overthrew
the Imamate and led, after a civil war during the 1960s, to the consolidation of
a republican system.
1967 - the withdrawal of the British
from Aden eventually resulted in the establishment of a communist state in the
South. The northern and southern parts of the country were in conflict for much
of the 1970s and 1980s.
1990 - on 22 May the Yemen Arab Republic
(YAR) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) were unified and
became the Republic of Yemen (ROY).
1993 - democratic elections (the first
in the Arabian Peninsula) led to a three-party coalition between the General
People's Congress (GPC), the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) and Islah (a mainly
northern Islamic tribal grouping). Disputes within the coalition resulted in an
escalating political crisis.
1994 - in spite of a conciliation
agreement signed in March, a series of military confrontations broke out,
leading to a full-scale war between northern and southern forces in May, caused
by the separatist movement of the Yemeni Socialist Party.
Unity was restored in July 1994, and in October
President Saleh was re-elected as President by the parliament in Sana'a and
announced the formation of a new coalition government comprising the GPC and
Islah, with the YSP and other smaller parties in opposition.
1997 - in the first election since the
1994 civil war, the ruling GPC won 187 seats in the House of Representatives
(301 member) in the elections held on 27 April.
1998 - in October, Eritrea and Yemen
accepted the ruling of an international court in the Hague over the disputed
Hanish islands in the Red Sea.
2000 - Yemen and Saudi Arabia signed a
treaty in June, resolving 65 years of dispute over land and sea boundaries.
2001 - first local election was held in February. Yemenis also approved the
extension of the President's and parliament's terms of office in a referendum. |
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Yemen Explorers Com.
Sana'a,
P.O. Box 23091, Rep. of Yemen
Tel.: +967-1-404838
Mobile: +967-711700938
Fax: +967-1-404837
yescom@yemen.net.ye
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