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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]
On 30 November of the same year, Socotra became part of South Yemen. Between 1976 and 1979, the island served as a base for the Soviet Navy. [17] [18] Although the South Yemeni government and president, Ali Nasir Muhammad, had denied their existence. [19] Slavery in the island was abolished under the rule of the Yemeni Socialist Party. [20]
The South Yemen civil war, colloquially referred to in Yemen as the events of '86, the events of January 13, or simply as the events, was a failed coup d'etat and brief civil war which took place on January 13, 1986, in South Yemen.
It was established in 2017, and it has called for and worked toward the separation of southern Yemen from the rest of the nation as it previously was until 1990. Declared on 11 May 2017, the council is headed by the former Governor of Aden Governorate , Aidarus al-Zoubaidi , as president, with former minister of state Hani Bin Breik as vice ...
The Republic of Yemen is divided into twenty-one governorates and one municipality : [1] The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts (muderiah), which are subdivided into 1,996 sub-districts, and then into 40,793 villages and 88,817 sub villages (as of 2013). [2] Before 1990, Yemen existed as two separate entities.
Yemen Region (Arabic: إقليم اليمن, romanized: Eglîm el-Yemen) also known as South Arabia is a geographic term denoting territories of historic South Arabia which included all lands between the Gulf of Oman in the east and the Red Sea.
Yemen's tribal areas and Shia/Sunni regions. Shia Muslims predominant in the green area of Yemen's West, with the rest of Yemen being Sunni Muslims. The ethnic makeup of Yemen consists predominantly of Arabs; but also includes minorities from the Horn of Africa, South Asia, and Europe. Yemen was formerly also home to a Jewish diaspora community.
Saleh became Yemen's first directly elected president in the 1999 presidential election, winning 96.2% of the vote. [186]: 310 The only other candidate, Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi, was the son of Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi, a former President of South Yemen.