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Aden
port city and temporary capital of Yemen / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aden (Arabic: عدن ʿAdan) is a port city in Yemen. It is at the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden). About 800,000 people live there. Aden was controlled by the British Empire from 1839 to 1967.
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