Aden Protectorate

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Aden Protectorate محمية عدن
1872–1963
Location of the Aden Protectorate on the Arabian Peninsula.
Status	Self-ruling sultanates, emirates and sheikdoms under British protection
Capital	Various
Common languages	Arabic Persian English Ottoman Turkish
Religion	Islam Judaism Christianity
Demonym(s)	Adeni
History
• Initial treaty	1872
• Federation formed	11 February 1959
• Disestablished	18 January 1963
Currency	Thaler, Rupee
Preceded by Succeeded by Kathiri Mahra Sultanate Yemen Vilayet Independent Tribes Federation of the Emirates of the South Protectorate of South Arabia
Today part of	Yemen

The Aden Protectorate (Arabic: محمية عدن Maḥmiyyat ‘Adan) was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut after the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India in January 1839, and which continued until the 1960s. In 1940, it was divided for administrative purposes into the Western Protectorate and the Eastern Protectorate.^[1] The territory now forms part of the Republic of Yemen.

The rulers of the Aden Protectorate, as generally with the other British protectorates and protected states, retained sovereignty: their flags still flew over their government buildings, government was still performed by them or in their names, and their states maintained a distinct 'international personality' in terms of international law, in contrast to states possessed directly by the British Empire, such as Colony of Aden, where the British monarch was the sovereign.^[2]