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  • Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سقطرى ; Suquṭra ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf ...
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  • Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سقطرى ; Suquṭra ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf ...
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  • territory includes the remote island of Socotra, about 350 km to the south ... points lie on the distant island of Socotra, which lies closer to Somalia ...
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  • On the isolated island of Socotra, south of Yemen in the Arabian Sea, a community of Christians had been attested as early as c. 354, by Philostorgius ...
    21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
  • areas also fringe the Arabian Sea, including Socotra off the coast of Yemen, the Khuriyya Muriyya islands and the Lakshadweep islands. ...
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  • palm and the native cucumber trees of the Socotra Islands. While much of the area is semi–arid or arid land, the Rift Valley has punctuated ...
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  • Group. The only other species in the genus, the Socotra pomegranate (Punica protopunica), is endemic on the island of Socotra. It differs in having ...
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  • Vic Socotra[http://www.vicsocotra.com/stories/6-3-07-capture_flag.htm]"Capture the Flag" Retrieved November 10, 2007. AFAR Association ...
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  • Africa and build a fortress on the island of Socotra to block the mouth of the Red Sea and cut off Arab trade with India. After a series of successful ...
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  • used as a dye. In the Arabian Sea, Socotra was occupied in 1506, and in the same year Lourenço d'Almeida visited Ceylon. Aden, after a ...
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  • Ships coming from Zanzibar made stops on Socotra or at Aden before heading to the Persian Gulf or to India. Slaves were sold as far away as ...
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