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Eritrea Italian Eritrea then came under British military administration, which in 1951 fell under United Nations supervision. In September 1952 it became an autonomous part of Ethiopia, until its independence in 1991. Eritrea Libya The British Military Administration of Libya was the control of the regions of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania…

The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word Guayanas (Las Guayanas), are a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories: French Guiana – an overseas department and region of France. Guyana –  formerly known as British Guiana from 1831 until 1966, after the colonies of Berbice,…

Guyana officially the Co‑operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. It is considered part of the Caribbean region because of its strong cultural, historical, and political ties with other Anglo-Caribbean countries and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The region known as “the Guianas” consists…

Upper Yafa or Upper Yafa’i, officially State of Upper Yafa, was a state in the British Aden Protectorate and the Protectorate of South Arabia. The Yafa’i tribe has traditionally inhabited the mountainous hinterland of the Aden area. In the 19th century it was formed by two sultanates, Lower and Upper…

The Mahra Sultanate, known in its later years as the Mahra State of Qishn and Socotra or sometimes the Mahra Sultanate of Ghayda and Socotra was a sultanate that included the historical region of Mahra and the Guardafui Channel island of Socotra in what is now eastern Yemen. It was…

The Kathiris once ruled much of Hadhramaut, but their power was truncated by the rival Qu’aitis in the 19th and 20th centuries, losing Al-Mukalla in the late 19th century process. The Kathiris were eventually restricted to a small inland portion of Hadhramaut with their capital at Seiyun (Say’un). The sultanate…

In 1940, the Aden Protectorate was divided for administrative purposes into the Western Protectorate and the Eastern Protectorate with its own Political Officer, a British advisor, stationed at Mukalla in Qu’aiti from 1937 to 1967. The Eastern Protectorate came to include the following entities (mostly in Hadhramaut): Kathiri Mahra Qu’aiti Wahidi Balhaf Wahidi…

The Protectorate of South Arabia consisted of various states located at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula under treaties of protection with Britain. The area of the former protectorate became part of South Yemen after the Radfan uprising and is now part of the Republic of Yemen. The background…