Lahej (Arabic: لحج Laḥij), the Sultanate of Lahej (Arabic: سلطنة لحج Salṭanat Laḥij), or, sometimes, the Abdali Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة العبدلي Salṭanat...

separate small states. The most notable of those states was the Sultanate of Lahej; most of those states (except Lahej) were submitted by the Ottomans and...

Principality of Najran (1633–1934) Southern Aden city Aden Province (1839–1937) Colony of Aden (1937–1963) Regional Sultanate of Lahej (1728–1967) Aden...

of Ad-Dakim (Arabic: معركة الدكيم) took place on July 3, 1915, in the Sultanate of Lahej, in which the Yemeni-Ottoman forces defeated the forces of the...

Lower Yafa Sultanate of Lahej Wahidi Haban Dathina Sheikhdom Haushabi Sultanate Baidah Sultanate The Protectorate of South Arabia consists of states located...

Sultanate of Lahej, a protectorate of the British Empire until 1967, when the sultan was expelled and the city became a part of People's Republic of South...

Kathiri Sultanate in Hadhramaut (14th century–1888) Mahra State of Qishn and Socotra (1432–1886) Sultanate of Lahej (1728–1839) Federation of South Arabia...

Aulaki Sultanate in June 1964, the federation included 17 states. Halfway between Sheikh Othman and Little Aden, the capital of the Federation of South...

biblical land of Sheba and "the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms". The exact date of the foundation of Sabaʾ is a point of disagreement...

District Tur Al Bahah District Yafa'a District Yahr District Lahij Sultanate of Lahej "Yemeni president appoints five new ministers in cabinet reshuffle"...

present-day Yemen, various small sultanates of the defunct Aden Protectorate and South Arabia: Audhali, Fadhli, Haushabi, Kathiri, Lahej, Lower Aulaqi, Lower Yafa...

The Kingdom of Yemen (Arabic: المملكة اليمنية, romanized: al-Mamlakah al-Yamanīyah), officially the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (Arabic: المملكة المتوكلية...

Dependence of Dhala Fadhli Haushabi Lahej Lower Aulaqi Lower Yafa Shaib Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom Upper Aulaqi Sultanate Upper Yafa Sultanate and the five...

the Federation of South Arabia (1962–1967) Emblem of the Sultanate of Lahej Emblem of the Sultanate of Lower Yafa Emblem of the State of Upper Yafa before...

Qasimid Dynasty and conquered Aden thus establishing the Sultanate of Lahej. The rising power of the fervently Islamist Wahhabi movement on the Arabian...

of Sana'a, permitting them a foothold in Mocha, and when unable to secure their position, they extracted a similar agreement from the Sultan of Lahej...

The Chief Commissioner's Province of Aden was the administrative status under which the former Aden Settlement (1839–1932) was placed from 1932 to 1937...

The Himyarite Kingdom was a polity in the southern highlands of Yemen, as well as the name of the region which it claimed. Until 110 BCE, it was integrated...

originally an agricultural officer from Lahej who fled to Cairo in 1958. In 1962, he was announced the head of a National Liberation Army, formed in Egypt...

Qasimid dynasty and conquered Aden, thus establishing the Sultanate of Lahej. The rising power of the fervently Islamist Wahhabi movement on the Arabian...

four-day naval siege of Aden. After Ottoman rule, Aden was ruled by the Sultanate of Lahej, under suzerainty of the Zaidi imams of Yemen. The first political...

Zaidi State fractured, resulting in the creation of many small Yemeni states such as the Sultanate of Lahej. However, the Ottomans initially proved reluctant...

Aden Colony was to have 24 seats on the new council, while each of the eleven sultanates of the former Aden Protectorate was to have six. The federation...

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) was united with the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), forming the Republic of Yemen. North Yemen became...

Islands. 1839: Britain conquered Aden from the Sultanate of Lahej. 1840: Britain established the Colony of New Zealand. 1843: Britain received Hong Kong...

abolition of monarchy is a legislative or revolutionary movement to abolish monarchical elements in government, usually hereditary. Abolition of absolutist...

self-government and in the opinion of some dissidents, political fusion with the autocratic and backward Sultanates was a step in the wrong direction....

The ancient history of Yemen or South Arabia is especially important because it is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively...

Sultan (1800–1830) Ghalib ibn Muhsin al-Kathir, Sultan (1830–1880) Sultanate of Lahej – Ahmad I ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-'Abdali, Sultan (1791–1827) Muhsin...

had led Yemen for 33 years. After Saleh left office in early 2012 as part of a mediated agreement between the Yemeni government and opposition groups,...