Aden

A view of the old town of Aden, located in the crater of an extinct volcano.

Aden (Arabic: عدن <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">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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Port of Aden from the ISS, 2016
Map showing Aden and Little Aden within the modern-day Governorate of Aden
Portuguese conquistador and viceroy Afonso de Albuquerque failed twice to conquer Aden in 1513.
Aden, with Portuguese fleet (1590)
The Port of Aden, Arabia. ca. 1891
Port of Aden (around 1910). Ships lying off Steamer Point at the entrance to the modern inner harbour.
Map of Aden peninsula, ca. 1914
Esplanade Road in the late 1940s
1951 stamp depicting Steamer Point with the outside of the volcanic rim of Crater in the background. King George VI is depicted at top left.
Mualla Main Road, 1963. Vehicles at the time were righthand drive and drove on the left, in the British custom until 1977.

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