history summery continued > 1st to 6th century: various indian, greek, ethiopian, and arabian sailors and traders > 880ad: conquered by the axsumite empire (ethiopians basically) and then 30 years later conquered by arabs from oman.  > 1220: persian geographer describes two groups of people on the island, the indigenous mountain dwellers and the foreign coastal dwellers. large settlements of indian traders > 1507: conquered by the portugese for 3 years but they died from famine and sickness and it was retaken by the mahra sultanate (basically ancient yemen/oman) > 1834: the british via the east indian tea company attempt to occupy the island and give up after a year because the sultanate refused to sell the island to them > 1967: the mahra sultanate is abolished and socotra becomes part of south yemen > now under the defacto control of the uae backed southern transitional council of yemens civil war
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