Aden Protectorate
The Aden Protectorate (Arabic: محمية عدن Maḥmiyyat ‘Adan) was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut after the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India in January 1839, and which continued until the 1960s. In 1940, it was divided for administrative purposes into the Western Protectorate and the Eastern Protectorate. The territory now forms part of the Republic of Yemen.
Aden Protectorate محمية عدن | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1872–1963 | |||||||||||||||||
Location of the Aden Protectorate on the Arabian Peninsula. | |||||||||||||||||
| Status | Self-ruling sultanates, emirates and sheikdoms under British protection | ||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Various | ||||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic Persian English Ottoman Turkish | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam Judaism Christianity | ||||||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Adeni | ||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||
• Initial treaty | 1872 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 February 1959 | |||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 18 January 1963 | ||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Thaler, Rupee | ||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Yemen | ||||||||||||||||
The rulers of the Aden Protectorate, as generally with the other British protectorates and protected states, retained sovereignty: their flags still flew over their government buildings, government was still performed by them or in their names, and their states maintained a distinct 'international personality' in terms of international law, in contrast to states possessed directly by the British Empire, such as Colony of Aden, where the British monarch was the sovereign.