Lower Yafa

The Lower Yafi Sultanate (Arabic سلطنة يافع السفلى, DMG saltanat yafi ʿ al- sufla, English Lower Yafa ) [A 2] was one of the two landlocked countries of the Yemeni Yafi - tribal confederation. Between 1959 and 1963 it was part of Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, then the South Arabian Federation.

History

The mountainous hinterland of Aden is occupied by the tribe of the Yafa'i that formed two sultanates, Lower and Upper Yafa in the 19th century. Lower Yafa consisted of five Sheikdoms, which were combined in 1800.

Ruled by the dynasty was Afifi the Sultanate, the territory of a fruitful part Abyans included, from the five Sheikdoms of Sa ʿ dī, Yaharī, Kaladi, Nāḫibī and Yazidi tribe; its capital was Dscha'ar, the old residence of the Banū - Afif sultans. The second capital of the Lower Yafi Sultanate was al - Qara where was the mountain palace of the Sultan. In contrast to the Upper Yafi Sultanate, which was in the high country, it was, especially after the Second World War, in contact with the British colonial government of Aden ( Aden Colony ). His last sultan, Mahmud ibn al - Afifi Aidrus, 1967 disempowered, which the Sultanate rose in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Today, the lower Yafi area of the Republic of Yemen.