عدن

عدن

A port in southern Yemen on the Indian Ocean, a major station on the maritime trade routes — al-Muqaddasi's 'vestibule of China' ¹. Al-Hamdani counts it among the oldest Arab fairs: a town ringed by trackless mountain until a gate was hammered through the rock with iron, drinking from a sand-well toward the waste, inhabited by the Maribiyyun, Hamahimiyyun and seafarers, the Maribiyyun claiming Aaronide descent ².