Sultanate of Lahij
The Sultanate of Lahij ( Arabic لحج, DMG Laḥiǧ ), also Abdali Sultanate (سلطنة العبدلي, Salṭanat al-ʿAbdalī ) was a state within the British protectorate of Aden. For a short time it belonged to the Federation of the United Arab Emirates of the South and then to the South Arab Federation . Its capital was Lahij . The area is now part of the Republic of Yemen .
history
Lahij was a sultanate of the Abdali dynasty under the suzerainty of the Zaidite Imam of Yemen . In 1728 the Abdali freed themselves from the domination of the Imam and thus became independent.
The British Indian Navy successfully attacked the port of Aden in 1839, forcing parts of Yemen to rule and influence it. This power became more and more noticeable in Lahij too. The sultanate was (besides Aqrabi, the Emirate of Dhala, the Sheikdom Alawi , the lower Aulaqi Sultanate , the Sultanate of Fadhli, Hauschabi, Subeihi and the lower Yafi Sultanate ) one of the nine cantons that signed protection treaties in the late 19th century signed by the United Kingdom .
Since 1919, the area around Subeihi also belonged to the sultanate. Lahidsch generally had good relations with the British, although they accidentally killed his sultan Fadhl ibn Ali al-Abdali in 1918 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica , 1984 edition, 1st edition, page 11
literature
- Paul Dresch. A History of Modern Yemen . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- RJ Gavin. Aden Under British Rule: 1839-1967 . London: C. Hurst & Company, 1975.
- Tom Little. South Arabia: Arena of Conflict . London: Pall Mall Press, 1968.