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Minaean Kingdom

State Defunct 1200 BCE – 650 BCE Capital Ma'rib Ma'rib Yemen

The Minaeans from Arabic are an ancient Arab group in Yemen during the 1st millennium BCE.

Their Minaean Kingdom is one of important kingdoms in ancient Yemen and Southwestern Arabia.

Their capital is Qarnawu/Qarnaw (NW Yemen) along the strip of desert called Sayhad by medieval Arab geographers (and that is called now Ramlat al-Sab`atayn).

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