Socotra

Socotra atau Soqotra (Arab: سُقُطْرَىcode: ar is deprecated ) merupakan sebuah kepulauan yang terdiri daripada empat buah pulau yang terletak di selatan Yaman di Lautan Hindi. Pulau ini terletak di antara sempadan Yaman dan Somalia di Teluk Aden, 190 batu nautika (220 bt; 350 km) di selatan Semenanjung Arab. ^[1] Kepulauan ini sangat terpencil, sehingga 1/3 daripada floranya tidak boleh ditemui di tempat lain selain di kepulauan ini.

Peta kepulauan Socotra

Kepulauan Socotra

Tapak Warisan Dunia UNESCO
Maklumat am
Nama asli	سقطرى
Sebahagian dari	Socotra Archipelago
Inskripsi	2008 (sesi ke-32)
Keluasan	3,796 km2 (4.086×1010 ka2)
Maklumat lokasi
Lokasi	Socotra Archipelago, Kegabenoran Socotra, Yaman
Koordinat	12°31′N 53°55′E
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Socotra merupakan sebahagian dari wilayah Republik Yaman. Pulau ini sudah lama menjadi sebahagian Kerajaan 'Adan, namun pada tahun 2004 menyertai Kerajaan Hadhramaut, yang lebih dekat ke kepulauan tersebut berbanding Adan (walaupun kerajaan yang terdekat adalah Al-Mahrah).

Galeri

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Rujukan

1. http://en.youth.cn/yculture/200911/t20091118_1085530.htm

Bacaan lanjutan

• Agafonov, Vladimir (2006/07). "Temethel as the Brightest Element of Soqotran Folk Poetry". Folia Orientalia. 42/43: 241–249. Check date values in: |year= (bantuan)
• Agafonov, Vladimir (2013). Mehazelo - Cinderella of Socotra (dalam bahasa English). ISBN 1482319225. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2013-06-05. Dicapai pada 2013-03-08.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Biedermann, Zoltán (2006). Soqotra, Geschichte einer christlichen Insel im Indischen Ozean vom Altertum bis zur frühen Neuzeit. Maritime Asia 17 (dalam bahasa German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-05421-8.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Botting, Douglas (2006) [1958]. Island of the Dragon's Blood (ed. 2nd). ISBN 978-1-904246-21-3.
• Burdick, Alan (25 March 2007). "The Wonder Land of Socotra, Yemen". The New York Times.
• Casson, Lionel (1989). The Periplus Maris Erythraei. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04060-5.
• Cheung, Catherine; DeVantier, Lyndon (2006). Van Damme, Kay (penyunting). Socotra: A Natural History of the Islands and their People. Odyssey Books & Guides. ISBN 962-217-770-0.
• Doe, D. Brian (1970). Field, Henry; Laird, Edith M. (penyunting). Socotra: An Archaeological Reconnaissance in 1967. Miami: Field Research Projects.
• Doe, D. Brian (1992). Socotra: Island of Tranquility. London: Immel.
• Elie, Serge D. (2004). "Hadiboh: From Peripheral Village to Emerging City". Chroniques Yemenites. 12.
• Elie, Serge D. (2006). "Soqotra: South Arabia's Strategic Gateway and Symbolic Playground". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 33 (2): 131–160. doi:10.1080/13530190600953278. ISSN 1353-0194. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (bantuan)
• Elie, Serge D. (2007). The Waning of a Pastoralist Community: An Ethnographic Exploration of Soqotra as a Transitional Social Formation (Tesis). University of Sussex. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (bantuan)
• Elie, Serge D. (2008). "The Waning of Soqotra's Pastoral Community: Political Incorporation as Social Transformation". Human Organization. 67 (3): 335–345.
• Elie, Serge D. (2009). "State-Community Relations in Yemen: Soqotra's Historical Formation as a Sub-National Polity". History and Anthropology. 20 (4): 363–393.
• Elie, Serge D. (2010). "Soqotra: The Historical Formation of a Communal Polity". Chroniques Yéménites. 16: 31–55.
• Elie, Serge D. (2012). "Fieldwork in Soqotra: The Formation of a Practitioner's Sensibility". Practicing Anthropology. 34 (2): 30–34.
• Elie, Serge D. (2012). "Cultural Accommodation to State Incorporation: Language Replacement on Soqotra Island". Journal of Arabian Studies. 2 (1): 39–57.
• Miller, A.G. & Morris, M. (2004) Ethnoflora of the Socotra Archipelago. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
• Naumkin, V. V.; Sedov, A. V. (1993). "Monuments of Socotra". Athens, Aden, Arikamedu: Essays on the interrelations between India, Arabia and the Eastern Mediterranean. Delhi: Manohar. m/s. 193–250. ISBN 81-7304-079-6. Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (bantuan)
• Schoff, Wilfred H. (1974) [1912]. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (ed. 2nd.). New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation.

Pautan luar

Wikimedia Commons mempunyai media berkaitan Socotra

Wikikembara memiliki panduan pelancongan bagi Socotra.

• Socotra Governance and Biodiversity Project. UNDP Yemen, 2008–2013
• LA Times photogallery of 11 images with descriptions, June 2009
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh: Soqotra's Misty Future. (See page 5 for information on dragons' blood).
• Regional Map of Socotra
• Global organisation of Friends for Soqotra in any aspect based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Audio interview with Soqotra resident about life in Soqotra
• Carter, Mike. The land that time forgot The Observer. Sunday April 16, 2006.
• A Historical Genealogy of Socotra as an Object of Mythical Speculation, Scientific Research & Development Experiment
• SCF Organisation. Diarkibkan 2004-02-11 di Wayback Machine
• An article in T Style Magazine – NYTimes
• "Suḳuṭra" in the Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Socotra Information Project.