The Hanish Islands (Arabic: جزر هانيش) are an island group in the Red Sea. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language An archipelago (ɑrkəˈpɛləgoʊ is a chain or cluster of Islands The word archipelago literally means "chief Sea " from Italian The Red Sea is a Salt water Inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. Most of them are a part of Yemen, but before 1998-1999 they were claimed by Eritrea as well. Yemen ( Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman officially the Republic of Yemen ( Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya Eritrea () ( Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritriya) officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in After a long trial with an international court under the guidance of Dr. Abdul-Karim Aleryani, Yemen was granted full ownership of the larger islands while Eritrea was awarded the peripheral islands to the southwest of the larger islands[1].
History
The Hanish Islands were claimed by Turkey until 1923 when they were abandoned. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches From that point forward they were administered by the Colony of Eritrea until 1941. In 1941, after the defeat of the Italian Colonial forces, the British army established Eritrea as a protectorate. Throughout the 1970's Ethiopia (which had annexed Eritrea) and Yemen claimed the islands. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Ethiopian interest in the Islands stemmed from the fact that Eritrean independence groups used the Hanish Islands, and the nearby Zuqar Island, as a base to attack Ethiopian military interests. Zuqar Island is an island of Yemen in the Red Sea. It lies the coasts of Yemen and Eritrea near the Bab-el-Mandeb straits which [2]
In 1991 Eritrea gained independence and in 1995 attempted to exercise sovereignty over the archipelago. This started the Hanish islands crises which were eventually arbitrated after a brief conflict.
See also
References
- ^ International Maritime Boundary. Zuqar Island is an island of Yemen in the Red Sea. It lies the coasts of Yemen and Eritrea near the Bab-el-Mandeb straits which Retrieved on 2006-07-17. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians
- ^ Killion, Tom (1998). Historical Dictionary of Eritrea. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-3437-5.
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