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Ca. 150 Seiten; zahlr. farb. Illustr. (Fotografie); 27,5 cm; fadengeh. Kunststoffband m. illustr. Orig.-Umschlag.

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Gutes ExemplarUmschlag berieben u. m. kl. Läsuren. - Englisch, französisch, arabisch. - Die Republik Jemen (amtlich Jemenitische Republik, ist ein Staat in Vorderasien, im Süden der Arabischen Halbinsel. Der Staat Jemen ist aufgrund des Bürgerkrieges und dessen andauernder politisch-gesellschaftlicher Verwerfungen heute als zusammengehöriges, souveränes Gebilde nicht mehr existent (Stand 2021). Der Jemen grenzt im Norden an Saudi-Arabien, im Osten an Oman, im Süden an den Golf von Aden und das Arabische Meer, im Westen an das Rote Meer. Die Staaten Dschibuti und Eritrea liegen etwa 20 bzw. 30 Kilometer entfernt jenseits des Roten Meeres. Die Küstenlänge beträgt 2400 Kilometer; die Binnengrenzen sind 1746 Kilometer lang. Zum Jemen gehören auch die 3814 km² große Inselgruppe Sokotra sowie zahlreiche kleinere Inseln im Bab al-Mandab im Roten Meer und im Arabischen Meer. Im Jahr 1990 vereinigten sich die zwei früheren Staaten Nordjemen (Hauptstadt Sanaa) und die Demokratische Volksrepublik Jemen (Südosten, Hauptstadt Aden) zum heutigen Staat. Seit 2013 herrscht ein Bürgerkrieg, in den ausländische Mächte eingriffen. In diesem Konflikt gelang es den Huthi-Milizen, die Hauptstadt Sanaa und große Teile des Landes zu erobern. Am 25. März 2015 leitete Saudi-Arabien unter militärischer Mitwirkung acht weiterer Staaten eine militärische Intervention unter dem Namen Sturm der Entschlossenheit zur Unterstützung der Zentralregierung unter Staatspräsident Hadi und des Regierungschefs Chalid Bahah ein. Der Konflikt im Jemen wird als Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen Saudi-Arabien und dem Iran bewertet. ? (wiki) // ... Today, the testimony of those who have visited Northern Yemen since its frontiers were opened to foreigners seems to corroborate this two-thousand-year-old judgement. Despite the vicissitudes of his-tory, which artificially divided the South of the Arabian peninsula into two parts, the Yemenite people still retain their own identity. This is all the more remarkable in that the country opened its doors to the outside world only some ten years ago, and this event had profound repercussions on the Yemenite so-ciety, which had been previously characterised by an almost total isolationism. The "Arabia Felix" of antiquity, the "Arab Tibet" as it was also known-what can one call present-day Yemen? Two words would certainly not suffice to give an exact idea of what this country is, with its varied geographical features, rugged mountains, unusual traditions, and mysterious and fascinating towns. Yemen today is in fact two States. In the North is the Arab Republic of Yemen, whose capital is Sanaa; this is the country we shall be dealing with in the pages that follow. In the South is the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, whose capital is Aden. But this administrative and political division may soon be a thing of the past, for the heads of state of both Yemens, Cadi Abdel Rahman Al-Iriani of Northern Yemen and Mr. Salem Roubaye AH of Southern Yemen, signed an agreement in Tripoli on November 28th 1972 with a view to a fusion of their respective countries in the near future. Nothing indeed justified the setting up of two separate States -there were no historical reasons up to the British occupation of the Southern part of the country in 1839, nor were there any cultural, economic, social or linguistic reasons. Both of the present-day States have the same peoples, the same ethnic roots, the same customs and living habits, and their economies are complementary. All Yemenites, in the North and in the South, have been well aware of this, and in recent years they have appealed for unity. The Tripoli agreement thus puts an end, in principle, to the tension which marred relations between Sanaa and Aden, and which political and frontier difficulties had aggravated to the point of provoking the fratricidal combats of September and October 1972. But Northern Yemen can henceforward devote all its efforts to combating under-development: efforts which it has been making for the past ten years. It was on September 26th 1962 that Republican officers overthrew the Imam Al-Badr, son of the Imam Ahmed who throughout his reign had refused to bring the country out of isolation. After the institution of the Republic, the leaders in Sanaa had to cope with successive crises largely caused by the civil war between them and the royalists -a war which lasted seven years. It was not until 1969 that fighting ceased following the signature of the reconciliation agreement which led to the acceptance of the republican system by the former royalists. The great challenge now facing the Sanaa government is to bring the country into the modern world without relinquishing its independence and its traditions, which are still deeply anchored in the life of some eight million Northern Yemenites. The home of a great civilisation, Yemen does not want to lose its identity. But neither does it want to remain apart from the course of world events; like other countries, it aspires to economic, social and cultural development. So that tomorrow one may again refer to "Arabia Felix". ? (S. 2)