Protectorate of Aden

The Protectorate of Aden (Arab: rear RTL حمايةعدنʿAdan), approximately: 285000 km, was a British protectorate in southernmost Arabia (current Southern part of the Yemen) in first half of the 20th century. It was partly integrated in the Fédération of the Arab emirates of the South in 1959, then, in 1962, in the Fédération of Arabia of the South, which the State of Aden joined, the remainder of the protectorates, mainly located in the oriental party, component from now on the Protectorat of Arabia of the South. The whole of these territories were amalgamated in 1967 to form the Popular republic of Yemen (or Yemen of the south), integrated in 1990 in the republic of Yemen.

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. The tribal entities started to be indicated like “the 9 tribes” or “the 9 cantons”, is:

Abdali (Lahej)
Alawi
Amiri (Dhala)
Aqrabi
Aulaqi
Fadhli
Haushabi
Subeihi
Yafa

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 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.

In 1937, the control of the Protectorate of Aden was transferred from Bombay to Foreign Office in London. For administrative reasons, protectorate informellement was informellement divided into Eastern protectorate and Western protectorate, each one with its own political adviser and certain a separation on the administrative level.

The names and the number of these entities, like their borders, fluctuated with the wire of time, some not having almost any true administration. Several are however known philatelists and numismatists. The list above was drawn up according to those of the article of and the site World Statesman, which differ especially for the list from Eastern protectorate.

In 1938, the British signed a treaty of council with the Quaiti sultan, and others of the same type with some of the entities in the years 1940-1950, per which a British resident was placed in each one of them.

British control was also challenged by King Ahmad bin Yahya off Yemen to the north who did not recognize British suzerainty in South Arabia and had ambitions off creating has unified Greater Yemen. In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, Yemen was involved in has series off to border skirmishes along the disputed Violet Line, has 1914 Anglo-Othoman demarcation that served to separate Yemen from the Aden Protectorate.

In 1950, Kennedy Trevaskis, the Adviser for the Western Protectorate drew up have plan for the protectorate states to form two federations, corresponding to the two halves off the protectorate. Although little progress was made in bringing the plan to fruition, it was considered has provocation by Ahmad bin Yahya. In addition to his role ace king, He also served ace the Imam off the ruling Zaidi branch off Shi' has Islam. He feared that has successful federation in the Shafi' I Sunnite protectorates would serf ace has off beacon for discontented Shafi' ites who inhabited the coastal areas Yemen. To tell the threat, Ahmad stepped up Yemeni efforts to undermine British control and, in the mid-1950s, Yemen supported has number off revolts by disgruntled tribes against protectorate states. The appeal off Yemen was limited initially in the protectorate goal has off growing intimacy between Yemen and the popular Arab nationalist president Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser and the formation off United Arab States increased its attraction.

This prodded the threatened rulers off the Aden Protectorate states to revives efforts At forming has federation and, one 11 February 1959, six off them signed year agreement forming the Federation off Arab Emirates off the South. In the next three years, they were joined by nine others and, one 18 January 1963, Aden Colony was merged with the federation creating the new Federation off South Arabia. At the same time, the (mostly eastern) states that had not joined the federation became the Protectorate off South Arabia, thus ending the existence off the Aden Protectorate. -->

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Flags of the various entities
List of the monarchs and other leaders

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