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    The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, lit. 'Gate of Lamentation', Tigrinya: ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ), the Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears, is a strait between...
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    suggested water routes out of Africa, as the Gibraltar, Sicilian, and Bab-el-Mandeb exit routes are harder to consider if watercraft are deemed beyond the...
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    Perim (category Bab-el-Mandeb)
    Strait of Mandeb at the south entrance into the Red Sea, off the south-west coast of Yemen. It administratively belongs to Dhubab District or Bab al-Mandab...
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    Retrieved 29 December 2023. "CENTCOM Statement on missile attack in the Bab-el-Mandeb". U.S. Central Command. Archived from the original on 15 January 2024...
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    and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the...
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    the Red Sea. It is situated approximately 170 km (110 mi) east of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and north of the Gulf of Aden. With its strategic location on...
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    Dact-el-Mayun, also known as the Western strait, the large strait, the large pass or the wide pass, is the western section of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits...
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    strait, the narrow pass or the small pass, is the eastern section of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, which separates Ras Menheli, Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula...
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    west connects the Arabian Sea to the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Oman is in the northwest, connecting it to the Persian...
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    Africa" theory probably occurred in East Africa through the Bab-el-Mandeb. Today at the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, the Red Sea is about 12 miles (19 kilometres)...
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    Red Sea crisis (category Bab-el-Mandeb)
    countries' merchant vessels in the Red Sea, and particularly in the Bab-el-Mandeb—the southern maritime gateway to the Suez Canal of Egypt and therefore...
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    the Issas (French: Territoire français des Afars et des Issas). The Bab-el-Mandeb region has often been considered a primary crossing point for early...
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    fire. The approaches to the Red Sea through the Gulf of Aden and the Bab-el-Mandeb (Gate of Tears Strait) is 15 nmi (28 km; 17 mi) wide. With the Italian...
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    coastal plain of the Arabian Peninsula from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Bab el Mandeb. Tihāmat is the Proto-Semitic language's term for 'sea'. Tiamat (or...
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    attacks targeting Israel-linked vessels passing through the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. His statements are broadcast primarily via Al-Masirah TV, his...
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    attempted to take over the Yemen region to gain control over The Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb; one of the most significant trading routes in the medieval world, connecting...
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    Route" (via Nile Valley and Sinai) and the "Southern Route" via the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. Posth et al. (2017) suggest that early Homo sapiens, or "another...
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  • takes international trade across the Western Indian Ocean through the Bab el-Mandeb strait connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden making it the perfect...
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    Ras Menheli (category Bab-el-Mandeb)
    point in Yemen on the coast of Bab-el-Mandeb close to the island of Perim. Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878), "Bab-el-Mandeb" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol...
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  • Portuguese forces, composed of four sailing ships and one oared fusta arrived at Bab al-Mandab in January 1551. Sefer Reis had expected his arrival and was waiting...
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    Operation Badr (1973) (category Bab-el-Mandeb)
    Egypt aimed to nullify Sharm el-Sheikh's importance to Israel by imposing a naval blockade at the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, almost 2,500 kilometers (1...
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    confirmed that one of its ships had completed its maiden patrol in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and was returning to the island but did not clarify the dates...
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    separated by only ten nautical miles from the Arabian Peninsula by the Bab el Mandeb and this is quickly changing as Tarik bin Laden, the brother of Osama...
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  • established theory, that Cush must have arrived in Africa via Arabia and the Bab-el-Mandeb, a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti...
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    coastline of Djibouti as well as protect tankers passing through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. The navy was built and structured with assistance from the United...
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    approximately 50,000 years BP, exiting the continent either across Bab-el-Mandeb over the Red Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar in Morocco, or the Isthmus...
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    blockade at Bab-el-Mandeb. Eighteen million tons of oil had been transported yearly from Iran to Israel through the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. The blockade...
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    000–100,000 years ago); and a second route through the present-day Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea (at that time, with a much lower sea level and...
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    targeted by missiles fired from Yemeni territory while operating in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. Mason was not hit by the two missiles, which were fired from...
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    stretching 2,300 kilometers from Egypt's Sinai peninsula southeast to the Bab-el-Mandeb strait between Djibouti in Africa and Yemen in Arabia but on average...
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