Madinat ash Sha'b
Madinat ash Sha'b
مدينة الشعب Al-Ittihad | |
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  Madinat ash Sha'b Location within Yemen | |
| Coordinates: 12°50′13″N 44°55′44″E / 12.837°N 44.929°E | |
| Country |  Yemen |
| Governorate | Aden Governorate |
Madinat ash Sha'b[1][2] or Madinat ash Shaab[a] (Arabic: مدينة الشعب, romanized: Madīnat al-Shaʿb[6]) formerly called Al-Ittihad (Arabic: الاتحاد, romanized: Al-Ittiḥād, meaning "union" or "unity"), is a suburb of Aden in the Al Buraiqah district of Aden Governorate, Yemen. Madinat ash Sha'b was founded in 1959 as Al-Ittihād, the first capital of the British Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia.[3]
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[edit]- ↑ Yemen (PDF) (Map). United Nations Department of Public Information. Cartographic Section. October 1996. Map No. 3847 Rev. 1. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Madinat al-Shaab". Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 18. 1999.
- 1 2 Burrowes, Robert D. (21 January 2019). Historical Dictionary of Yemen. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810855281. Retrieved 21 January 2019 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Al Ittiḩād". GEOnet Names Server.
- ↑ "Madinat ash Shab". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
- ↑ "Madīnat al-Shaʿb". Encyclopædia Britannica (Online ed.). Retrieved 5 August 2026.
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