Minaeans
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The Minaeans were a group in ancient Yemen during the 1st millennium BC. Their Minaean Kingdom was one of the major kingdoms in ancient Yemen and Southwestern Arabia. Their capital was Qarnawu/Qarnaw (NW Yemen) along the strip of desert called Sayhad by medieval Arab geographers.
The Minaean people were one of four ancient Yemenite groups (Greek ethnos) classified by Eratosthenes. The others were the Sabaeans, the Himyarite, and Qatabanian people. While each of these had regional kingdoms, the Minaeans were in a dominant poisition from approximately 1200 BC until 650 BC and were succeeded by the Sabaean Kingdom (750 BC to 115 BC).
The Minaeans, as where the other Arabian and Yemenite kingdoms of the same period, were involved in the extremely lucrative spice trade, especially frankincense and myrrh.[link]
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