7 Facts about Yemen

Learn, Share, Subscribe ------------------------------------------------ Watch the Asian series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZJ71IJGFRRGIkTyr4u371Fx6e88Qx2N Here is the European Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZJ71IJGFRTa_XMM9a4hDh2Yo9CsZzOR Follow: https://plus.google.com/+blinder00 https://twitter.com/Sebastian2Go https://www.facebook.com/official7facts ------------------------------------------------ In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about Yemen. More information about the video content bellow: 1. Shibam, in Hadramaut province, is an extraordinary city, sometimes known as "the Manhattan of the desert". It consists of some 500 mud-built tower houses resembling skyscrapers, some of them as many as 11 storeys high. Shibam is a Unesco world heritage site, as is the old city of Sana'a. 2. Welcome to the Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth: Socotra. Yemen’s territory includes more than 200 islands, the largest of these Islands is Socotra. Socotra is considered the jewel of biodiversity in the Arabian Sea. In the 1990s, a team of United Nations biologists conducted a survey of the archipelago’s flora and fauna. They counted nearly 700 endemic species, found nowhere else on earth. 3. In ancient times Yemen was known as Arabia Felix, Latin for "happy" or "fortunate". It acquired the name because its high mountains attracted rain, making it more fertile than most of the Arabian peninsula. In 26BC the Roman general, Aelius Gallus, led a military expedition to Yemen that ended in disaster. 4. Yemen in its present form was created in 1990 by the merger of two countries - North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic) and South Yemen (The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen). The latter was a small British Crown Colony, called Aden. In 1918, North Yemen became independent from the Ottoman Empire. The British withdrew from South Yemen in 1967. A Marxist philosophy was adopted by South Yemen in 1970, causing many to flee to North Yemen. Because of this the two nations became hostile towards each other. However, in 1990, the two nations were unified and became the Republic of Yemen. 5. The capital city of Yemen is Sana'a, one of the oldest cities still inhabited in the world. According to Yemeni legend, it was founded by Shem, one of the sons of Noah from the Hebrew Bible. One of the oldest copies of the Holy Quran was found in Sana’a. It dates back to 671 AD, just 39 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. 6. So important was the port of Mocha in the coffee trade that its name has become synonymous with the very best coffee beans (and only later as describing a mixture of coffee and chocolate). The Mocha coffee bean comes from a strain of Coffea arabica which is native to Yemen. For a long time, this bean was available only from Mocha. To protect their monopoly, sellers ensured that the coffee beans were roasted before exporting, so that there was no chance of the buyers propagating the plants for themselves. 7. The Old City District (al-Qadeemah) of Sana'a is one of the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world, having been built inside the surrounding clay walls over 2500 years ago. Many of its buildings are multi-storied, and bear intricate geometric decorations. More Info: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/05/yemen-20-things-to-know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socotra http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Geography/Yemen-20411.html Music: Doctor Turtle – Manly Nunn Steps Out http://freemusicarchive.org/ Images: http://d1vmp8zzttzftq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/panorama-of-shibam-hadhramaut-province-yemen.jpg http://webodysseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/shibam-yemen-03.jpg http://vrf.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/socotra-01.jpg http://static.thousandwonders.net/Socotra.original.1994.jpg https://wiammaktari.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/yemen-10055.jpg http://thecentrestar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ancient-yemen.jpg https://themuslimvibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Making-sense-of-whats-going-on-in-yemen-right-now.jpg http://arabia2day.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mothaharatsadah29042011.jpg http://www.badalotti.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/LBT_20120311_6621-l.jpg http://static.thousandwonders.net/Sana'a.original.8467.jpg http://www.coffeeshrub.com/shrub/sites/default/files/imagecache/full/Close-up%20of%20coffee%20drying..jpg http://sprudge.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sprudge-YemeniCoffee-EvanGilman-yemen_coffee_circle.jpg https://carolyntravels.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/dsc_0348.jpg http://www.marcodilauro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/001.jpg Intro: Creation by Shaheen http://topfreeintro.com/creation-free-intro-template-after-effecs/ Jonjass Designs https://www.youtube.com/user/JonjassDesigns Intro Music: DJ Goodman – Japanese Flute (Dubstep Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JH_H_-I4Hw