Upper Yafa

Upper - Jafa (Arabic يافع العليا, DMG yafi ʿ al - ʿ Ulyā, proper name in English Upper Yafa or State of Upper Yafa [A 3] ) is a historical state on the Arabian Peninsula, which belonged to the British Protectorate of South Arabia in 1903 and was incorporated in November 1967 to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.

History

The mountainous hinterland of Aden is occupied by the tribe of the Yafa'i, the upper and lower - Jafa formed in the 19th century two sultanates. Upper Yafa consisted of five Sheikdoms that were united in 1800 under the suzerainty of the Harhara Dynasty.

In 1902, a British- Turkish Boundary Commission established the border between the Ottoman Yemen and the British protectorates of Aden, where upper - Jafa was added to the British territory. It was only in it a Protectorate Treaty between Sultan Qahtan and the British was completed.

The first Europeans who traveled the area was Lieutenant Colonel MC Lake (1886-1943), who in 1925 formed a small border troops from the tribal warriors to fend off territorial disputes with the Imam of Yemen can.

In the years 1955-1957 there were riots against the British supremacy, which were crushed by the protectorate. When the British attempted in 1962 with the establishment of the pro-British South Arabian Federation, to create from the small sultanates a common polity, did not join the upper - Jafa, but remained an exclave of the Protectorate of South Arabia. On November 30, 1967 Upper Yafa became independent together with the other sultanates and the former crown colony of Aden as a popular Democratic Republic of Yemen. The Marxist -oriented government of South Yemen also mentioned State smashed the old feudal and drove the last Sultan upper Jafas.

List of sultans

  • Qahtan ibn ` Umar ibn Salih Al Harhara (ca. 1800-1810 )
  • ` Umar ibn Qahtan ibn ` Umar Al Harhara (ca. 1810-1815 )
  • Qahtan ibn ` Umar ibn Qahtan Al Harhara (ca. 1815-1840 )
  • ` Abd Allah ibn Nasir ibn Salih Al Harhara (ca. 1840-1866 )
  • Al - Husayn ibn Abi Bakr ibn Qahtan Al Harhara (1866-1875)
  • Muhammad ibn ` Ali ibn Salih ibn Ahmad Al Harhara ( 1875-28. April 1895 )
  • Qahtan ibn ` Umar ibn al - Husayn Al Harhara (1895-1903)
  • Salih ibn ` Umar ibn al - Husayn Al Harhara ( first term December 4 1903-1913, second term 1919-1927 )
  • ` Umar ibn Qahtan ibn ` Umar Al Harhara (1913-1919)
  • ` Umar ibn Salih ibn ` Umar Al Harhara (1927-1948)
  • Muhammad ibn Salih ibn ` Umar Al Harhara ( 1948-29. November 1967 )

Postal Area

The Sultanate directed in 1967 its own postal service and was between September 30 and November 29, 1967 a total of 94 stamps with the words State of Upper Yafa / South Arabia out. The brands are mostly devoted to European works of art or sports events. They were in New York produced by the Agency M. Sellinger and sold directly to collectors.

DIN 31635 Lower Yafa Marxism
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