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Zinjibar, the Glossary

Zinjibar (زِنْجِبَار Zinjibār) is a port and coastal town in south-central Yemen, the capital of Zinjibar District and the Abyan Governorate.^[1]

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Populated coastal places in Yemen

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (translit Yemeni pronunciation:; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician and former field marshal of the Yemeni Armed Forces who served as the president of Yemen from 2012 until 2022, when he stepped down and transferred executive authority to the Presidential Leadership Council, with Rashad al-Alimi as its chairman.

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Abyan Governorate

Abyan (أَبْيَنْ) is a governorate of Yemen.

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Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen)

Jama'at Ansar al-Shari'a (جماعة أنصار الشريعة), also known as Ansar al-Shari'a, is a Yemen-based umbrella organization which includes units from several militant Islamic groups of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

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Fadhli Sultanate

Fadhli (فضلي), or the Fadhli Sultanate (السلطنة الفضلية), was an independent sultanate on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula from the 17th century until 1967.

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Fall of Zinjibar and Jaar

In early December 2015, two Yemeni towns, Zinjibar (the provincial capital of Abyan Governorate) and Ja'ar (a town a few km inland to the north), were captured by the jihadist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

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Far East

The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.

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Gossypium barbadense

Gossypium barbadense is one of several species of cotton.

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Governorates of Yemen

Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality (amanah): Notes: a - Also known as Sanaa City, it is not part of any federal region b - Socotra Governorate was created in December 2013 from parts of the Hadhramaut Governorate, data included there The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts (muderiah), which are subdivided into 1,996 sub-districts, and then into 40,793 villages and 88,817 sub villages (as of 2013).

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Houthi movement

The Houthi movement (الحوثيون), officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s.

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Jaʽār

Jaar (Arabic: جعار Jaʿār) is a small town and the capital of Khanfir District in southwestern Yemen. Zinjibar and Jaʽār are Populated places in Abyan Governorate.

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List of districts of Yemen

The governorates of Yemen are divided into 333 districts (as of 2019) (mudīriyyā).

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Robert Bertram Serjeant

Robert Bertram Serjeant, FBA (23 March 1915 – 29 April 1993) was a British scholar, traveller, and one of the leading Arabists of his generation.

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Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war

On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, launched an intervention in Yemen at the request of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who had been ousted from the capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 by Houthi insurgents during the Yemeni Civil War.

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Shuqrah

Shuqrah (شُقْرَة), also Shaqrāʾ (شَقْرَاء) or Shuqrāʾ (شُقْرَاء), is a coastal town in southern Yemen. Zinjibar and Shuqrah are Populated coastal places in Yemen and Populated places in Abyan Governorate.

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The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Wadi Bana

The Wadi Bana is a major wadi of southwestern Yemen.

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WebCite

WebCite is an intermittently available archive site, originally designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by taking snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger or a scholar cited or quoted from it.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinjibar

Also known as Zingibar, Zinjibār, Zingibar.