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Yemen

noun

A republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990. Synonym: Republic of Yemen.

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... Mokha by ship and then on to Sana, the capital of the Yemen, from which place to make the pilgrimage to Mekka. However, having heard of the war in the Hedjaz in Arabia, I abandoned my project, and sailed from Souakin, on July 6, for Djidda, where I arrived on July 16, and afterwards ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various

... has been wandering in Yemen, The land of the aloe and myrrh; Where the breezes that blow from the ocean, Brought feelings of ...

— Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems • James Avis Bartley

... part, from the root to the extremity, was five palms in length, of the thickness of an average man's arm, and of extreme strength and hardness. [M. Alfred Grandidier (Hist. de la Geog. de Madagascar, p. 25) thinks that the quill part of this feather was one of the bamboo shoots formerly brought to Yemen to be used as water-jars and called there feathers of Rukh, the Arabs looking upon these bamboo shoots as the quill part of the feathers of the Rukh.—H.C.] The fibres of the feather were equal in length and closely fitted, so that they could scarcely be parted without ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

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