مملكة معين (ar), Məin padşahlığı (az), Мінейскае царства (be), Ma'in (ca), Ma'in (eo), دولت معین (fa), Minaean (fi), Minejsko kraljevstvo (hr), ミナエア人 (ja), Mainas (lt), Ma'in (nl), Królestwo minejskie (pl), Reino Mineu (pt), Минейское царство (ru), Minejsko kraljevstvo (sh), Минејско краљевство (sr), Ma'in (sv), Ma'in devleti (tr), Мінейське царство (uk), Main (uz), 麦因 (zh)
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The Minaean people were the inhabitants of the kingdom of Ma'in (Minaean: mʿn, vocalized Maʿīn; modern Arabic معين Maʿīn)
in modern-day Yemen, dating back to the 10th century BCE-150 BCE. It was located along the strip of desert called Ṣayhad by
medieval Arab geographers, which is now known as Ramlat Dehem.
The Minaean people were one of four ancient Yemeni groups mentioned by Eratosthenes. The others were the Sabaeans, Ḥaḑramites
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.
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