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  • Damer, which lies a little south of the tributary Mogren (called Mareb by Bruce).

    Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

  • On May 25, 2010, a U.S. missile attack killed at least six people including Jabir Shabwani, the 31-year-old deputy governor of Yemen's central Mareb province.

    U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike Adam Entous 2011

  • Around that time, Yemen's government arranged to send Mr. Shabwani on a mission to meet informally with al Qaeda members in Mareb in a bid to convince them to renounce the terror organization, said Mr. Shabwani's father, Sheik Ali Shabwani.

    U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike Adam Entous 2011

  • The Yemeni security official said newly deployed troops are being sent to Shebwa and Abyan provinces, where the government is already engaged in two-month-old offensives, as well as Mareb province.

    Tribal Ties Impede Yemen's War on al Qaeda Margaret Coker 2010

  • The troops are headed to Shebwa and Abyan provinces, where the government is already engaged in a two-month-old offensive, as well as Mareb province.

    World Watch 2010

  • Mareb residents complained of a lack of schools, utilities and other infrastructure, and over how to share local oil revenues with the government.

    U.S. Doubts Intelligence That Led to Yemen Strike Adam Entous 2011

  • Suspected al Qaeda gunmen killed seven government soldiers in a skirmish over the weekend in the southern Mareb province, according to government officials.

    Yemen Talks Stall Hakim Almasmari 2011

  • At the end of four hours, after passing through a wood of acacia trees, we reached the river Mogren (ﻥﺮﻘﻣ), not Mareb, as Bruce writes it, a name quite unknown here.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • The Bisharein Bedouins, and the husbandmen on the banks of the river Mogren (the Mareb of Bruce), repair to Berber to buy

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • Von Wrede thinks it was the Fons Stygis of Ptolemy, but M. de Goeje thinks that Ptolemy alluded to some place farther west and south of Mareb.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

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