ʿAulaqī

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Map of the South Arab Federation - to the north of the three Aulaqi states lay the Beihan Emirate , to the east the Wahidi Sultanate of Bal-Haf and to the west the Fadhli Sultanate and the Dathina Sheikdom.

ʿAulaqī ( Arabic عولقي, DMG ʿAulaqī ) - the plural is ʿAwāliq (عوالق) - is the name of an Arab tribal confederation in Yemen .

The territory of the Awaliq is divided by a mountain range (the Kaur al-ʿAwd ), so that a distinction is made between an upper and a lower Aulaqi area. The latter is about 80,000 km² and borders the Indian Ocean in the south ; the Lower Aulaqi Sultanate with the capital Ahwar once existed here . To the north, in the upper Aulaqi area of ​​around 100,000 km², in the west was the Upper Aulaqi Sultanate with the center of Nisab and in the east the Upper Aulaqi Sheikdom , whose capital was Yeshbum. Both the landlocked states and their southern sister sultanate belonged to the Federation of the United Arab Emirates of the South and then to the South Arab Federation until their dissolution in 1967 .

Well-known Awaliq are among others:

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