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Yemen

(Southern) Yemen

FIRST STAMPS ISSUED 1 April 1968.

CURRENCY
1967, 1000 fils = 1 dinar.

The seventeen sultans of the Federation of South Arabia were deposed in 1967 by rival 'liberation fronts', who then fought each other. Before the end of the year the three Eastern Aden Protectorate states had been absorbed into the People's Republic of Southern Yemen. An agreement in 1972 for union with Yemen Arab Republic within a year has not been implemented.

Yemen Arab Republic

FIRST STAMPS ISSUED 1926.

CURRENCY
1926, 40 bogaches = 1 imadi.
1964, 40 bogaches = 1 rial.
1975, 100 fils = 1 rial.

An independent Imamate of the Zaidi sect of Shia Muslims set up in 897, Yemen was incorporated into the Turkish Empire in 1517-1630 and 1872-1918, but regained independence. The Imam escaped from a republican coup d'etat on 26 September 1962 and, although a Yemen Arab Republic was recognized by the UN and supported by Egypt, he held out in the northwest with Saudi Arabian aid until 1970.

Royalist Forces
The Royalist forces operated a postal service in the area they held and externally via Saudi Arabia.

Stamps were issued 7 November 1962-70, though many (supplied by contract agents on their own initiative) were neither necessary nor appropriate, and have been declared undesirable.

Upper Yafa

FIRST STAMPS ISSUED 1967.

CURRENCY
1967, 1000 fils = 1 dinar.

A Sultanate of South Arabia, formerly part of the Western Aden Protectorate. Independent from September to December 1967, then part of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.