Greater Yemen
Yemen Region (
geographic term denoting territories of historic South Arabia which included All lands between the Gulf of Oman in the east and the Red Sea
.
The term 'Yaman' appears to have originated at the time of Islam and has, in Arabic usage, covered a wide range of the west and south of the Arabian Peninsula, from the region south of
Himyar established there.[1]
In the 20th century, Imam
King Ahmad bin Yahya who did not recognise British suzerainty in South Arabia and also had ambitions of creating a unified Greater Yemen. In the late 1940s and the early 1950s, Yemen was involved in a series of border skirmishes along the disputed Violet Line, a 1913 Anglo-Ottoman demarcation that served to separate Yemen from the Aden Protectorate.[2]
After Aden achieved independence from Britain in the 1960s, it united with North Yemen in 1990 to form the
Republic of Yemen, which saw the majority of Greater Yemen ruled as a single polity for the first time in nearly two centuries, but the Southern Movement has since 1994 sought the secession of south Yemen
.
See also
References
- ^ "The Wikipedia Library". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
- ^ Ungoverned Territories: Understanding and Reducing Terrorism Risks
Sources
- Negotiating the Saudi-Yemeni international boundary
- History of Yemen[permanent dead link]
- Yemen: About The Yemen - Part 1
- Yemen's Historical Capital
