| LC control no. | n 50002559 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Protectorate of South Arabia |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Protectorate of South Arabia |
| Variant(s) | South Arabia (Protectorate) |
| See also | Aden (Protectorate) Southern Yemen |
| Beginning date | 1962 |
| Ending date | 1967-11-30 |
| Special note | In 1962 Aden Protectorate was renamed the Protectorate of South Arabia. |
| Found in | Columbia gaz. of the world, 1998 (South Arabia, Federation of; former state (1963-1967) formed by merger of colony of Aden with the Federation of the Emirates of the South; latter was formed Feb. 1959; at first only 6 (of 22) emirates, sultanates and sheikdoms joined; by the end of 1960 there were 10 members; in Jan. 1963 Aden colony joined federation, which was renamed Federation of South Arabia; British forces withdrew in Nov. 1967 and Aden and South Arabia became independent state of South Yemen) Wikipedia, 11 Jan. 2017: Protectorate of South Arabia (grouping of 4 states at southern end of the Arabian Peninsula under treaties of protection with Britain; designated on 18 January 1963 as consisting of those areas of the Aden Protectorate that did not join the Federation of South Arabia, and it broadly, but not exactly, corresponded to the division of the Aden Protectorate which was called the Eastern Aden Protectorate; disestablished Nov. 30, 1967) Wikipedia, 11 Jan. 2017: Aden Protectorate (British protectorate in southern Arabia which evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden; Aden Colony not included in protectorate; on 11 February 1959, six rulers of states in the Aden Protectorate signed an accord forming the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South; in the next three years, they were joined by nine others and, on 18 January 1963, Aden Colony was merged with the federation creating the new Federation of South Arabia; at the same time, the (mostly eastern) states that had not joined the federation became the Protectorate of South Arabia, thus ending the existence of the Aden Protectorate) |
| Geographic area code | a-ye--- |
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