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 * Yemen **





( Abdulrahman Aleisa)

**Introduction**
The country of is located under Saudi Arabia and next to Oman. It has people from different religions but is dominantly Muslim. The religions are Muslim ( Salafi, Shaf'i, and zaydi) as well as Jews, Christians and Hindus. The capital of Yemen is San'aa, and a very important city is Aden which was the target for the British Empire. The major forces that invaded Yemen were the Ottomans and the British Empire. The Ottomans invaded the country twice in the North and South in two different centuries. sources: [] (Abdulrahman Aleisa)

In 1517 the Ottomans invade part of Yemen and Yemen is now a part of the Ottoman Empire. Mainly Aden and Lahij were a part of the Ottoman Empire. The Zaidiyyah dynasty ruled Sanaa and Yemen. In 1538 Aden was captured was captured by the Ottomans. In 1635 the Zaidiyyahs expelled the Ottomans from Yemen. Their greatest expansion was when the Zaidis (Zaidiyyahs) invaded Southern Yemen and the Hadramaut. In 1839 Aden is ruled under the British and serves as a major refueling port when the Suez Canal eventually opens in 1869. In 1872 the Ottomans once again occupy northern Yemen, but then face revolt. In 1918 the Ottoman Empire dissolves and is ruled by Imam Yahya, the ruler of the Zaidiyyahs. In 1948 Yahya is assassinated and his son Ahmad succeeds his father. In 1962 Imam Ahmad dies and the Yemen Arab Republic starts up which starts a civil war. In 1963 a revolution against South Yemen begins and in 1968 South Yemen is independent once again. Then in 1990 the unification of North and South Yemen happens.

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=**First Ottoman Invasion**=

The Ottoman Empire invaded South Yemen in 1537 and they were the only dominant power in the country. ====Yemen was under the control of the Mamluk dynasty from 1200 to 1500. The Ottoman dynasty took control====

people. That was the first invasion of the Empire, and they later invaded Yemen along with the British Empire.
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was extended to other mainland areas to the east of Aden([|1]).
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**Independence of North Yemen**


In 1918 the Ottoman Empire left Yemen for a second time after their 1872 occupy of north Yemen. After the Ottomans left Yemen, they became ruled by Imam Yahya who was the leader of the Zaidiyyah community. He took power of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), or North Yemen. People in Yemen started to oppose Yahya in the late 1930s and in the mid-1940s the majority of the population opposed his rule as a leader. In 1948 Imam Yahya was assassinated during an overthrow of Yahya. After the assassination of Imam, his son Imam Ahmad succeeds his father after he beat off the opponents of feudal rule. Ahmad ruled until 1962 and that is when his son succeeded him for one week but the army officers, led by Colonel Abdallah al Sallal, who seized power of Sanaa and started the Yemen Arab Republic. This sparked a civil war between royalists supported by Saudi Arabia and republicans backed by Egypt.

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**Independence of South Yemen ** In 1963 they commenced the revolution against the British colonialism, South Yemen. In 1965 most of the tribal states in the country including the Aden colony joined to form the British sponsored Federation in South Arabia. For the next two years, two rival groups-the Marxist National Liberation Front (NFL) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) fought for power. In 1967 the Egyptian troops withdrew and the People's Republic of Yemen which included Aden and South Arabia was proclaimed. In 1968, following a royalist siege of Sanaa, the opposing leaders had settled. Total independence of Southern Yemen occurred in 1968. In 1969 the radical wing, NFL gained power and in 1970 the country’s name was changed to the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY). In 1970 Saudi Arabia finally recognized the YAR. In 1990 Yemen was united once again. Sources: [|http:/][|/www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/History/Y][|emen-history.htm] [] [] (Jon Denzer)

=Yemen from 1990 until Present=

(James Dornberg)