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Qishn
Qishn is a coastal town in Al Mahrah Governorate in eastern Yemen, on the Arabian Sea. It was the mainland seat of the Mahra Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra, ruled by the Afrar family, until the sultanate was abolished in 1967 and absorbed into South Yemen. The sultans moved between Qishn and Hadibu on Socotra.
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