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Sanaa, [a] [b] officially the Sanaa Municipality, [c] is the de jure capital and largest city of Yemen. The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate , but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit.
Sanaa (Arabic: صَنْعَاء Ṣanʿāʾ), also spelled San'a ' or Sana, is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Sanaa, which is also the national capital. However, the city of Sanaa is not part of the governorate but instead forms the separate governorate of Amanat Al-Asemah. The Governorate covers an area of 13,850 km 2 (5,350 sq mi). As ...
The Sanaa funeral airstrike took place on the afternoon of 8 October 2016 when 155 people were killed and at least 525 more wounded when two airstrikes, about three to eight minutes apart, hit the packed Al Kubra hall in Sanaa, Yemen during a funeral.
City becomes capital of the Yemen Arab Republic. Al-Thawra newspaper begins publication. [12] 1967 - November: Siege of Sana'a (1967) begins. [5] 1970 - Sana'a University established. 1971 - National Museum of Yemen established in Dar al-Shukr. 1974 - June: Military coup; Ibrahim al-Hamdi in power. [13] 1975 Installation of water supply system ...
The Bāb al-Yaman [1] ("Gate of the Yemen") is an iconized entry point through the city walls and is more than 1,000 years old. A commercial area of the Old City is known as Al Madina where development is proceeding rapidly. In addition to three large hotels, there are numerous stores and restaurants. The area also contains three parks.
The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية اليمنية al-Jumhūriyyah al-‘arabiyyah al-Yamaniyyah, French: République arabe du Yémen), commonly known as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a country that existed from 1962 to 1990 in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen. [4] Its capital was at Sanaa.
On 30 May 2024, the United States and United Kingdom conducted a joint set of airstrikes in Sanaa and Hodeidah, Yemen, killing 16 people and injuring 42. [4] [5] The United States and United Kingdom claimed that the strikes were targeting members of the Houthi rebel group; however, the Houthis claimed all those killed or injured in the strikes were civilians.
'Gate of Yemen') is the main gate of Old Sanaa's old fortified wall, on the southern extremity of the walled city. German geographer Carl Rathjens dated its current appearance to the 17th century and attributed the initial design of the gate to the biblical Shem, the son of Noah. [1] Today, it is the most ornate of the gates of Sana's Old City.