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Lahij is an agricultural oasis extends over Wadi Tubn Delta. It is the richest era in the South Arabia with its many varied songs and dances. Lahj was a sultanate until 1967. The Abdaalites, sultans of Lahij and Aden, were famous for their relations with India, especially after the British occupation for Aden in 1889; that Culkatta became a center for the East India Company and Aden a center for refueling the British ships with coal fuel. The Britons had brought some Indians to Aden for administrative work. So relationship with India grew, and the sultans had visited India, and made good political and commercial relations. From there, the poet prince Al-Qumendan has brought fruit and vegetable seeds, and planted "Al-Husaini" gardens here.