Saada, Yemen

Yemen

Saada, Yemen connects through 68 Bunkabop connections with 1143 other places across 16 topics, shaped most heavily by government, military, and history. The city shares strong ties with Aden and Sanaa, its fellow Yemeni places, as well as Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Houthi insurgency, launched in Saada in 2004, anchors a strong cluster of military and government connections. Saada also appears in historical threads reaching back to 897 CE, when Yahya and his followers settled there, and to a 1456 siege that sent a captive to Sana'a.