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

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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  • Port of Aden, Yemen from ISS

    Port of Aden from ISS, 2016

  • Assault on Aden

    Portuguese conquistador and viceroy Afonso de Albuquerque failed twice to conquer Aden in 1513, though Portuguese rule would later be established from 1513 until 1548.

  • Hogenberg.Aden

    Aden, with Portuguese fleet (1590)

  • Port of Aden 1890's

    Port of Aden 1890

  • Aden postcard

    Port of Aden (around 1910). Ships lying off Steamer Point at the entrance to the modern inner harbour.

  • Map of Aden (Baedeker 1914)

    Map of Aden peninsula, ca. 1914

  • Aden. Esplanade Road, Crater, late 1930s

    Esplanade Road in the late 1930s

  • Stamp Aden 1951 2sh

    1951 stamp depicting Steamer Point with the outside of the volcanic rim of Crater in the background

  • Mualla Main Road

    Mualla Main Road, 1963. Vehicles at the time were righthand drive and drove on the left, in the British custom until 1977.

  • 1955 British pass. - Aden

    1955 British passport for former Aden protectorate citizens – Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut الدولة القعيطية

  • Aden02 flickr

    Aden in 1960

  • Aden, Yemen Port

    View of Aden from the sea

  • Street Scene Aden Yemen

    A street scene at the old town of Aden. 1999

  • Aden03 flickr

    Aden's harbour in 1960

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