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South Yemen, [c] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, [d] abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, [e] [f] was a state that existed from 1967 to 1990 as the only communist state in the Middle East and the Arab world. [7]
The Republic of Yemen uses the North's ISO 3166-1 alphabetic codes (alpha-2: YE, alpha-3: YEM), as opposed to the South's (alpha-2: YD, alpha-3: YMD); a new numeric code was assigned for the unified country (887) to replace the old numeric codes (North: 886; South: 720), as is the custom for any merging of countries.
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The history of this dynasty is obscure; they never exercised control over the highlands and Hadramawt, and did not control more than a coastal strip of the Yemen bordering the Red Sea. [61] A Himyarite clan called the Yufirids established their rule over the highlands from Saada to Taiz , while Hadramawt was an Ibadi stronghold and rejected all ...
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The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية اليمنية al-Jumhūriyyah al-‘arabiyyah al-Yamaniyyah, French: République arabe du Yémen), commonly known as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a country that existed from 1962 to 1990 in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen. [4]
Beyond the economic grievances were also cultural and social ones too. Many in the south long believed their history was distinct from that of their northern neighbours. This became more evident after the 1990 unity. After 128 years of British rule, South Yemen was an independent state for 23 years.
In 1923, Emir Idrissi, the ruler of Asir, maintained an uneasy independence between Nejd, Hejaz, and Yemen. He was at peace with his traditional rivals in Hejaz, but in dispute with Imam Yahya of Yemen, to the south of Asir. [9] The area controlled by the independent Idrisid emirate fluctuated during the ten years of its independent existence.