Protectorate of South Arabia. Information.
The Protectorate of South Arabia was a grouping of 4 states located at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula under treaties of protection with Britain. The Protectorate of South Arabia was designated on 18 January 1963 as consisting of those areas of the Aden Protectorate that did not join the Federation of South Arabia, and it broadly, but not exactly, corresponded to the division of the Aden Protectorate which was called the Eastern Aden Protectorate. The protectorate included the Hadhrami states of Kathiri, Mahra, and Qu'aiti and Wahidi that were in the Eastern Aden Protectorate (with various other states) without Wahidi Sultanate but with Upper Yafa was in the Western Aden Protectorate. The Protectorate of South Arabia was dissolved on 30 November 1967 and its constituent states quickly collapsed, leading to the abolition of their monarchies. The territory was absorbed into the newly independent People's Republic of South Yemen, which became part of the Republic of Yemen in 1990. The area of the former protectorate is now part of the Republic of Yemen Currency: East African shilling
