Lower Yafi Sultanate
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 Location of the Lower Yafi Sultanate in southern Arabia |
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| Form of government | Sultanate 1800–1967 | |
| Official language | Arabic | |
| Capital | Ja'ar | |
| British protectorate | 1895 | |
| Incorporation into the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen | November 30, 1967 | |
| currency | South Arabian dinar (from 1965) | |
The Lower Yafi Sultanate ( Arabic سلطنة يافع السفلى, DMG Salṭanat Yāfiʿ as-Suflā , English Lower Yafa ) was one of the two landlocked states of the Yemeni Yafi tribal confederation . Between 1959 and 1963 it belonged to the Federation of the Arab Emirates of the South , then to the South Arab Federation .
history
The mountainous hinterland of Aden is inhabited by the Yafa'i tribe, who formed two sultanates , Lower and Upper Yafa , in the 19th century . Lower Yafa consisted of five sheikdoms that were united around 1800.
Ruled by the dynasty Afifi was the Sultanate , whose territory also a fertile part Abyans included, from the five sheikdoms of Sa'dī-, Yaharī-, Kaladī-, Nāḫibī- and Yazidi tribe; its capital was Ja'ar , the old residence of the Banū-Afīf sultans. The second capital of the Lower Yafi Sultanate was al-Qara, where the Sultan's Mountain Palace was located. In contrast to the Upper Yafi Sultanate , which was in the highlands, it was in contact with the British colonial government of Aden ( Aden colony ) , especially after the Second World War . His last sultan, Mahmud ibn Aidrus al-Afifi, was ousted in 1967, with the result that the sultanate became part of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen . Today the lower Yafi area is part of the Republic of Yemen .
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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The British-Yemeni Society, Passage to Yafa '(1891–1967) ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ al-Qara picture
- ↑ Frank Edwards, The Gaysh: A History of the Aden Protectorate Levies 1927-61, and the Federal Regular Army of South Arabia 1961-67 , Helion & Co Ltd, 2004, p. 16 ISBN 978-1-874622-96-3
Remarks
- ↑ previously East African Schilling , in remote parts of Yemen the Maria Theresa Thaler was still in circulation until the 1950s
- ↑ the German terms Unter-Jafa or Unter-Yafa are rarely found in German-language literature (exceptions in Manfred Scheuch : Atlas zur Zeitgeschichte: Asia, Africa and America in the 20th Century . Brandstätter, Vienna, 1993, p. 78 or Waldemar Gruschke → individual evidence)