Arabia Arabia The Arabian Peninsula is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia consisting mainly of desert. The Arabian peninsula is an important part of the greater Middle East, and plays a critically important geopolitical role due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arabian Peninsula"
The Arabian Sea ( Latin: Mare Erythraeum) is the part of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Baluchistan and Sind provinces of Pakistan and part of the southern Persian littoral, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, and Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) in India. It was known as the Sindhu Sagar to Indians in the Vedic period of their history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arabian Sea"
Greater Yemen ( Arabic: اليمن الكبرى [Al-Yaman al-Kubrā]) is a geographic term denoting the present territory of the Republic of Yemen as well as the region of 'Asir and the adjacent parts of Tihamah (currently part of Saudi Arabia) and sometimes Dhofar (currently part of Oman). ...more on Wikipedia about "Greater Yemen"
== Abu Dhabi rulers== ...more on Wikipedia about "List of rulers of separate Emirates of the United Arab Emirates"
(Maflahi) Maflhai is a small region that became part of the Federation of South Arabia. It is now part of Yemen. On 4 April 1962 the Federation was enlarged and renamed the "Federation of South Arabia". It had 17 members : ...more on Wikipedia about "Maflahi"
The Sultanate of Oman is a country in the southwestern part of Asia, on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates in the northwest, Saudi Arabia in the west, and Yemen in the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea in the south and east, and the Gulf of Oman in the northeast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oman"
The State of Qatar ( Arabic: قطر), an emirate in the Middle East, occupies the small Qatar Peninsula which is part of the larger Arabian Peninsula. It borders Saudi Arabia to the south; otherwise the Persian Gulf surrounds the country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Qatar"
The Queen of Sheba, referred to in the Bible books of 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles, the Qur'an, and Ethiopian history, was the ruler of Sheba, an ancient kingdom which modern archeology speculates was located in present-day Ethiopia or Yemen . Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called Makeda in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is Bilqis. Alternative names given for her have been Nikaule or Nicaula. ...more on Wikipedia about "Queen of Sheba"
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Jordan on the north, Iraq on the north and north-east, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the south and south-east, and Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf to its north-east and the Red Sea to its west. It is called "the land of the two holy mosques", a reference to Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest places. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saudi Arabia"
TeachArabia is a pan- Arab IT company that produces learning software like Wass, TASchool, LMS, AIS, and moayyad . ...more on Wikipedia about "TeachArabia"
The Ten Families refers to the ten families or tribes that have ruled the Persian Gulf, with the exception of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The standard Arabic reference to a tribe is bani fulan, literally translated as "the sons of so-and-so". A majority of the families in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are part of the Bani Yas tribe whose origin can be traced back to Yas Bin Amer of the Nizar Bin Maid bin Adnan tribe. The ten families are ...more on Wikipedia about "The Ten Families"
The United Arab Emirates (also called the UAE) is an oil-rich Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain. Before 1971, they were known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in reference of a nineteenth-century truce between the British and some Arab Sheikhs. It borders Oman and Saudi Arabia. ...more on Wikipedia about "United Arab Emirates"
The Republic of Yemen ( Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية), composed of former North and South Yemen, is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west. It borders Oman to the northeast and Saudi Arabia elsewhere. Its territory includes the remote island of Socotra, about 350 kilometres (217 mi) to the south off the coast of East Africa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yemen"
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