Monday, November 30, 2009

BUSINESS PEOPLE MINEA

The first kingdom in southern Arabia is Minea, who estimated there from since 1200 BC until 650 BC. Minea nation primary area includes the large oasis of the river runs to the northwest Ma'rib, which since the Islamic period known as the Al-Jawf. Minea in Arabic Al-Ma'iiniyyuun or Ma'iin or spoken Ma'in yangberarti springs. In the Gospel called Ma'on or Me'un or Me'in. The name that lasted until now is Ma'an, located to the north of Petra, which is an important colony in the northern trade route. In the near Tabuk and Al-Ula, Minea writings prove the existence of the colony that served as storage and postal links.

Minea Kingdom Qarnaw capital Qarnawu or later by the Arab geographers called the mid Sayhad. Capital of Minea, Qarnaw, Halevy visited in 1870, is now called the Ma'in town located south of al Jawf, northeast of Sana'a. Religious metropolis, Yatsil, which is also located in the south of al-Jawf, now called Baraqish city, is adjacent to coal-sea Ma'rib. Minea people speak the same language with the people of Saba ', with a slightly different dialect. Some writings called Minea writings include dukumen kingdom Qataban people and a small amount of text Hadramaut. Carvings found in the ruins of a temple at al-Hazm, the capital of al-Jawf province, described the hanging containers may be offering wine, antelopes, animals and other sacrifices, the snake is regarded as a symbol of God, dancing girls who also became minister in the temple, and the ostrich locked in the sacred garden.
Untama trade conducted by Minea is the spice trade, incense (frankincense) and myrrh. In the late 4th century BC until the 2nd century BC, the Minea monopolize the main trade route from South Arabia to point across the Mediterranean by the caravan trade to within two months, had a good time. To protect this route, Minea nations to establish colonies northwest Arabia, the oasis of Dedan. The confrontation between Saba 'and Ma'in to control the trade routes franincense described in an inscription that described a war between the Medes and Egyptians who might be a reference to the conquest of Egypt by Artaxeres III Okhos in 343 BC. In these inscriptions the two community leaders from Dedan states Minea gratitude for protection on the caravan route between Ma'in and to attack the nation Nagran Saba. In the inscription is also expressed about the communication with the Egyptian people Minea, Gazza, Ionia, Sidon, Ammon, and Moab Yatrib (later known as Medina). The Egyptians tell about the people Minea, that they deliver the perfume to a temple of the Egyptians. At Delos, Greece by two Apollo and Artemis temple, two altars people standing Menia and the Romans, the Romans spoke of franincense Minea, because franincense is a product of Minea requested by the Romans.

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