From Wikitravel

Aden is a city in Yemen, on the Gulf of Aden just at the Southern End of the Red Sea. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Aden has a long and complex history.

• Marco Polo described it as a hub of commerce, where goods arriving by ship from the East were transferred to smaller boats for the trip up the Red Sea and on to Alexandria and Christendom.
• At one point it ruled a small empire, the part of Africa just across from it.
• In the 19th century, it became a British protectorate.
• It was the capital of South Yemen until Yemen was re-united in 1990.

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