Posts tagged with ‘Yemen’

  • This Day in History September 27, 1962

    By Ruth on September 27, 2013
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    I have actually visited today’s featured country.  On this date in 1962, following the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, the Yemen Arab Republic was established.  Sana’a became the capital, and so began the Yemen Civil War.  Eventually Yemen was unified, if you want to call it that.  When I was there many years ago, I noticed that the former borders […]