Flag of Yemen

The flag of the Yemen was adopted in May 1990 when both Yemen met to form only one and single country. The three colors of the flag are the Couleurs panarabes, already present on the flags of the Southern and the Northern Yemen as on many other countries of the area.

According to the official sources, the red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs and the unit; the white, a glowing future and black, dark moments of the past.

History

Kingdom of Yemen (Yemen of North) 1918-1962

The septentrional part of Yemen was subjected nominally to the Ottoman Empire until 1918, date on which it becomes independent.

The flag would have been used since 1927. The five stars account for the five Piliers of Islam and the five prayers of the day. The saber, emblem attends used by Arabic, and the red can be also included/understood like symbol of the fight for the independence of the country and the blood poured for that.

Monarchy (Imamat) there was abolished the September 27th, 1962, date on which the country took the Arab name of Republic of Yemen (Yemen of North). This coup d'etat marks the beginning of the civil war which opposes the Arab nationalists constant by the United Arab Republic (current Egypt) and the Al-Badr royalists supported by the Saudi Arabia and the Jordan. The royalists will continue to use the flag of the kingdom. The conflict is completed in 1967 after the military intervention of the Egyptian forces, and with him also the use of the flag of the kingdom dies out.

Arab Republic of Yemen (Yemen of North) 1962-1990

With the United Arab Republic of the Egypt and Syria formed in 1958, Yemen took part in a confederation called the plain Arab States, dissolved in 1961 without to have fulfilled its role of precursor of the Panarabisme. This confederation did not have a clean flag, but in its honor, Yemen took the flag of United Arab Republic by withdrawing some one of the two stars (each State being thus represented by a star).

This flag was officially used in November 1962.

The colony of Aden (left the Yemen of the south) 1937-1963

Initially, only from abstract arrangements had been concluded with nine tribes bordering the port from Aden, British colony and important port depend on the colonial level on the Empire of the British Indies. This type of arrangements existed since 1874 with the tacit agreement of the Ottoman Empire, which maintained its suzerainty on Yemen in North. While starting with a formal treaty of protection with the Sultanate Mahri de Qishn and Socotra in 1886, the the United Kingdom was harnessed with a slow formalization of arrangements of protection which included more than 30 principal treaties of protection, the last having been signed only in 1954. These treaties, just as a certain number of minor agreements, founded the Protectorat of Aden , which extended very to the East from Aden, in Hadramaout, except for Aden even, which constituted the colony of Aden, then the establishment of Aden, and finally the State of Aden in 1963. In exchange of British protection, the leaders of the territorial components committed themselves not concluding from agreements with any another foreign power, nor to yield a portion of territory to him.

British protectorates (part of the Yemen of the south) 1918-1967

The 24 sultanates of the South formed two British protectorates, Eastern protectorate and Western protectorate, called as a whole Protectorat of Aden.

A federation of mini-States " protégés" under British control, founded the February 11th 1959 starting from territories of the Protectorate of Aden, the Federation of the Arab emirates of the South (Arab: اتحادإماراتالجنوبالعربي) counted at the beginning six Member States among the 24, including 2 emirates, 3 sultanates and 1 sheikhat, joined by three others in 1959-1960, and two new in 1962. The April 4th 1962, the Fédération of Arabia of the South succeeded to him. It was about the same entity which had done nothing but change name, the flag having remained identical besides.

Of 1963 with 1965, the State of Aden and several other territories of old protectorates joined the federation, the remainder taking the denomination of Protectorat of Arabia of the South and trying at one time to create a distinct federation, the State of the Hadramaout, which would have then federated with the Saudi Arabia, this one wishing to obtain a window on the Indian Ocean.

popular Democratic republic of Yemen (Yemen of the south)

The Yemen of the south corresponds to the old British hinterland, formed gradually as from 1839 around the port of Aden. After the departure of the British troops, the Federation of Arabia of the South and the Protectorat of Arabia of the South gathered the November 30th 1967 to form a new independent State, the Popular republic of the Yemen of the south. Three years later, this one adopted the popular name of Democratic republic of Yemen.

The popular Democratic republic of Yemen in the South used a flag with the Couleurs panarabes red, white and black, to which was added blue triangle sky to the pole, with a red star, symbols of the Yemeni socialist party. The global design of the flag was obviously influenced by the Drapeau of Cuba, according to the revolution castrist of 1953.

Reunification of both Yemen

May 22nd, 1990, the Arab Republic of Yemen (Yemen of North) and the popular Democratic republic of Yemen (Yemen of the south) amalgamated to form only one State, the Republic of Yemen.

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