Aden Colony - Wikipedia
Aden Colony (Arabic: مُسْتْعَمَرَةْ عَدَنْ, romanized: Musta'marat 'Adan) was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1963 located in the southern part of modern-day Yemen.
List of British colonial administrators of Aden - Wikipedia
This is a list of British colonial administrators of Aden from the 1839 Aden Expedition to the 1967 withdrawal from Aden. They were appointed from British India until 1937 when the Chief Commissioner's Province of Aden became the Colony of Aden under the responsibility of the Colonial Office in London.
Why did British troops leave Aden? | Imperial War Museums
Ever since they occupied Aden as a territory in 1839, British troops were subjected to attacks. From 1962, Britain was engaged in an escalating conflict in the protectorate.
Aden Colony - British Empire
As India increased in importance, the British sought to secure access to and from its most important colony. To start with, they considered the waterless inhospitalible island of Perim at the mouth of the Red Sea. This was originally occupied in …
Aden Protectorate - Wikipedia
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.
Records of the British Administration in Aden, 1839-1967 | The …
2024年11月16日 · Aden became part of the British overseas territory and was under British rule from 1839 to 1967. In the second half of the 19th century, Britain signed a series of Treaties with Aden's...
Aden | Yemen, Map, Population, & Facts | Britannica
2024年12月3日 · Aden, which the British had captured in 1839 from the sultan, was chosen as the most suitable location and later became so heavily used as a coal-bunkering facility that it was nicknamed the “Coalhole of the East.” Certain mainland areas were purchased by the British between 1868 and 1888, and in 1937 Aden became a British crown colony.
A Short History Of The Aden Emergency | Imperial War Museums
In 1839 Britain captured the town of Aden (now part of Yemen) in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Like the later seizure of Cyprus (1878) and of Egypt (1882), the occupation of Aden was a strategic rather than commercial undertaking, guarding the lines of …
Britain's complex colonial legacy in Yemen - The New Arab
2022年9月19日 · Yemen's south was a strategic British colony for 129 years. The British seized Aden in 1839, overpowering fierce local resistance at the time. The city's strategic location and ports fuelled Britain’s desire to control it.
Queen Elizabeth II’s last foothold in Arabia | News | Al Jazeera
2022年9月9日 · In April 1954, just less than a year after her royal coronation, Queen Elizabeth II stepped off the SS Gothic into the only Arab territory to ever become a colony of the British Empire, Aden.