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    The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit. 'Gate of Lamentation', Tigrinya: ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, is a strait between...
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    Perim and a smaller island in the Bab al-Mandab strait. He warned that "the prospect of a war in the strait of Bab al-Mandab is a real one" and said the weapons...
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    blend of Arabic, Indian, and African influences. Positioned near the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, a vital maritime route, it serves as a crucial seaport. The...
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  • forces, composed of four sailing ships and one oared fusta arrived at Bab al-Mandab in January 1551. Sefer Reis had expected his arrival and was waiting...
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    roughly oval volcanic island in Yemen, northwest of the constricted Bab al-Mandab passage at the mouth of the Red Sea, about halfway between mainland...
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    Perim (category Bab-el-Mandeb)
    south-west coast of Yemen. It administratively belongs to Dhubab District or Bab al-Mandab District, Taiz Governorate. The island of Perim divides the strait of...
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    also including islands and beaches in the Gulf of Tadjoura and the Bab al-Mandab. The main tourist activities are scuba diving, fishing, trekking and...
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    which early hominins could have dispersed out of Africa (along with the Bab al Mandab and the Strait of Gibraltar). Homo erectus left Africa and became the...
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    National Marine Dredging Company and was used to carry aid through the Bab Al Mandab strait. On 1 October 2016, the ship was attacked and damaged off the...
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    March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024. "Bulk carrier reported abandoned at Bab-al-Mandab after Houthi missile attack". Insurance Marine News. 20 February 2024...
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    east. At its maximum extent, Qatabān's territory extended from the Bāb al-Mandab in the southwest to the Ṣayhad desert to the north, and the western...
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  • far as Jabal al-'Awd (near Zafar) in the southwest, and if we are to believe the Greek and Latin writers, it went as far as Bāb al-Mandab on the Red Sea...
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  • incursion along the coastal plains of Yemen near Mokhā (al-Moḫâ) and the strait known as Bāb al-Mandab. It is to be noted that the Ethiopian church in Ẓafar...
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    economic sovereignty until 1978. During his rule, Al Hamdi built up the Yemeni defenses in Bab al Mandab and on Yemeni islands and modernized and expanded...
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    The second was to maritime security in the Straits of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab, because a substantial portion of energy trade and commercial goods...
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    includes the island of Jabal al-Tair, formed by the basaltic stratovolcano of the same name, located northwest of the Bab al-Mandab passage at the mouth of...
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    battles between Yemeni forces and Houthi rebels near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait, military officials said. Clashes since 7 January have also killed...
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    missile at Bab Al Mandab base killing over 150 Saudi-led coalition personnel stationed there. On 16 January 2016, Houthi forces fired a Tochka at Al Bairaq...
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    Red Sea (redirect from Al Baḩr al Aḩmar)
    Aden but was forced to retreat. They cruised the Red Sea inside the Bab al-Mandab, as the first fleet from Europe in modern times to have sailed these...
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    stationed in the Red Sea by 1517. Fearing Portuguese fleets the blockade on Bab Al Mandab to continue.[clarification needed] Selman's fleets aimed to clash with...
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    Red Sea crisis (category Bab-el-Mandeb)
    with a number of US destroyers and warships in the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-mandab strait" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 24 January 2024. Retrieved...
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  • Principality of Guria 1548 Van Safavid Persia 1548 Aden Portugal 1551 Bab al-Mandab Portugal 1551 Siege of Gozo Order of Saint John 1551 Siege of Tripoli...
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    Aden, an expedition led by Albuquerque cruised the Red Sea inside the Bab al-Mandab, and sheltered at Kamaran island. In 1521, a force under António Correia...
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  • Bab al-Mandab District (Arabic: مديرية ذباب) also known as Dhubab District is a district of the Taiz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had...
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    Aden, an expedition led by Albuquerque cruised the Red Sea inside the Bab al-Mandab, and sheltered at Kamaran island. In 1521, a force under António Correia...
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    ridicule. The idea is to dam the Red Sea at its southern end where the Bab-al-Mandab Strait is only 29 km (18 mi) wide. Natural evaporation would rapidly...
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    battle, Afonso was forced to retreat. He cruised the Red Sea inside the Bab al-Mandab, with the first European fleet to have sailed this route. He attempted...
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    incursion along the coastal plains of Yemen near Mokhā (al-Moḫâ) and the strait known as Bāb al-Mandab. The Ethiopian church in Ẓafâr, which had been built...
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  • collection at Bab al-Mandab and the south coast, and on pearl fishing. Meanwhile, Abbasid rule in Arabia was declining. After the violent end of caliph al-Musta'in...
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  • Battle of Chalchuapa – 1885 Battle of Ilopango Airport – 1981 Battle of Bab al-Mandab – 1551 – Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1559) (Ottoman–Portuguese...
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