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ADEN (AH-duhn) 1.
Port city of Yemen
A foreigner should be well-behaved ~ Yemeni proverb
Aden is a city in Yemen. It is a natural port, built on an old volcanic site and first used by the ancient Kingdom of Awsan between the 5th and 7th centuries BC.
Aden consists of a number of small towns: the port city, the industrial city known as Little Aden with its large oil refinery, and Madinat ash-Sha'b, the centre of government. Two suburbs, Khormaksar and Sheikh Othman, lie north of the old city, with the international airport situated between them. It was the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of the Yemen until the unification of North and South Yemen when it was declared a free trade zone. It gives its name to the Gulf of Aden. The USS Cole bombing happened in this city on October 12, 2000.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Aden".
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