Minaeans

Also known as Minaei

'''Ma'in''' (; ) was an ancient South Arabian kingdom in modern-day Yemen. It was located along the strip of desert called Ṣayhad by medieval Arab geographers, which is now known as Ramlat al-Sab'atayn. Wadd was the national god of Ma'in. The spoken language was Minaic. The kingdom appears in the historical record in the 8th century BCE, and transition from a city-state to kingdom in the last quarter of the 7th century BCE. The date of the end of Ma'in is heavily disputed, but the most popular hypothesis places its demise in the 1st century CE.

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Former country.demonym: Minaean(s)
Former country.capital: Qarnawu
Former country.year_start: 8th century BCE
Former country.year_end: 1st centuries CE
Former country.government_type: Monarchy
Former country.image_map: Kingdom of Ma'in.png
Former country.religion: Pre-Islamic Arabian religions
Former country.common_languages: Minaean language
Former country.conventional_long_name: Kingdom of Ma’in

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inception: 1000-00-00
Commons category: Ma'in
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1000-00-00

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The Minaean people were one of four ancient Yemeni groups mentioned by Eratosthenes. The others were the Sabaeans, Ḥaḍramites and Qatabānians. Each of these had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans in the north-west (in Wādī al-Jawf), the Sabaeans to the south-east of them, the Qatabānians to the south-east of the Sabaeans, and the Ḥaḑramites further east still.