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Aden Colony was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1963, located in the south of contemporary Yemen. It consisted of the port of Aden and its immediate surroundings, and was separated from British India in 1937.
In 1937, the settlement was detached from India and became the Colony of Aden, a British Crown colony. The change in government was a step towards the change in monetary units seen in the stamps illustrating this article. When British India became independent in 1947, Indian rupees (divided into annas) were replaced in Aden by East African ...
The Aden Protectorate was a British protectorate in southern Arabia that existed from 1872 to 1963. It consisted of various self-ruling sultanates, emirates and sheikdoms that retained a large degree of autonomy and were divided into the Western and Eastern Protectorates.
Aden Colony. Aden Piracy. As India increased in importance, the British sought to secure access to and from its most important colony. To start with, they considered the waterless inhospitalible island of Perim at the mouth of the Red Sea. This was originally occupied in 1798 when Napoleon landed an army in Egypt.
Learn about the history and causes of the British withdrawal from Aden in 1967, after facing nationalist insurgency and Egyptian support. See photographs, objects and documents from the conflict and the evacuation.
It was made a crown colony in 1937, incorporated in the Federation of South Arabia (1963–67), and served as the capital of South Yemen until that republic’s merger with North Yemen in 1990. Yemen Summary. Yemen, country situated at the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.
Learn about the British colonial occupation of Aden and the armed rebellion by the NLF and FLOSY from 1963 to 1967. See photos, objects and sources related to the Aden Emergency.
