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March 1, 1963
- On August 16, 1962, negotiations ended with the signing of an agreement, according to which Aden, while remaining under British sovereignty, was to become part of the Federation of South Arabia on March 1, 1963.
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On August 16, 1962, negotiations ended with the signing of an agreement, according to which Aden, while remaining under British sovereignty, was to become part of the Federation of South Arabia on March 1, 1963.
The Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia (Arabic: اتحاد إمارات الجنوب العربي Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy) was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen.
On 18 January 1963, the Colony of Aden was incorporated into the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South against the wishes of North Yemen. The city became the State of Aden and the Federation was renamed the Federation of South Arabia (FSA).
The Aden Troop was created in 1855 to police the territory which was technically only 80 square miles but had a vast hinterland of 9000 miles of desert and mountain known as the Aden Protectorate. Its chiefs were nominally under the control of a political resident who was also the military commander.
In January 1963, in response to growing nationalist unrest in the region, the British persuaded the sheikhdoms of the Aden Protectorates to merge with the Colony of Aden and form the Federation of South Arabia (FSA).
rate political landscape that was the colony of Aden and the protectorates of South Arabia, into a coherent state the Federation of South Arabia (FSA). That this experiment in state creation too foundered on the rocks of popular resistance from the National Liber-ation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY ...
Aden joined in January 1963 and the federation was subsequently renamed the Federation of South Arabia (FSA). This decision, however, outraged nationalists. The merger was followed by unrest and disorder, setting a tone that would last until British withdrawal.
