Aden

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

Aden (Arabic: عدنcode: ar is deprecated 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 capture Aden in 1513.
Aden. In Braun & Hogenberg 1590
Crater lighthouse next to the post office at the beginning of the last century
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
Photograph showing the headquarters of the British Forces in Aden (in Barrack Hill, Steamer Point). The R.A.F. Hospital is seen in the background. Cropped from a postcard published c. 1935.

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