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![[South Yemen]](../images/y/ye-south.gif)
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image by Željko Heimer, 3 October 2003
Introduced about 30 November 1967.
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Before 1959, the British interests in South Arabia consisted of :
On 11 February 1959 was created the
Federation of South Arabian Emirates.
On 4 April 1962 the Federation was enlarged and renamed "Federation
of South Arabia".
There remained a Protectorate of South
Arabia.
The colony of Aden entered the Federation (as
State of Aden) on 18 January 1963.
Independence was scheduled for 1968, but the NLF and FLOSY, urban guerrilla movements based in Aden, objected to the city's being placed under the rule of absolute monarchs, forced an early British withdrawal in November 1967, and established the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (commonly known as South Yemen).
Vincent Morley, 3 February 1997
The Federation of South Arabia declared its independance from
Britain on 30 November 1967, under the name "People's Democratic
Republic of Yemen". The flag was adopted on the same date.
The victory of the revolutionaries in 1967 supposedly led to the
abolition of the separate states. Probably the sovereigns fled to the
United Kingdom or to other Arabic countries.
Roy Stilling, 5 December 1997
by Martin Grieve and Christopher Southworth,
27 August 2006
by Martin Grieve and Christopher Southworth,
27 August 2006
The South Yemen presidential flag was similar to the national
flag, but with a coat of arms on the top, red stripe close to the
hoist but not touching the blue triangle. The arms is of the
Saladin-eagle-with-shield style, all in gold.
Source: Smith [smi75c]
Santiago Dotor, 8 April 2002
In Whitney Smith's 1975 Flags through the Ages and Around The World
([smi75c]), this flag is depicted, and instead of the regular coat of arms
embellishing the upper red bar of the flag, it is a gold-coloured variant of this, similar in appearance to the
present-day Egyptian flag. South Yemen only had a President from 1967-1969,
and thereafter Chairmen of the Presidential Council (to 1978), and finally Chairmen of the Presidium of
the Supreme People's Council (to 1990), so I am unsure if this flag continued in use after 1969, but given that
Smith's book is a 1975 publication, this was probably the case and the flag would continue until
1990.
Martin Grieve, 27 August 2006
Smith shows it in his 1975 edition [smi75c] on page 47,
but, noticeably enough, he does not show it further on on page 298 were there should
be one. Nor is it in such later editions as 1982's Zastave i grbovi svijeta (Flags and Arms
of the World [smi82]. That is odd, and may
mean that at the time of publishing (1975) this flag was already a historical one?
Željko Heimer, 5 October 2003
by Martin Grieve and Christopher Southworth,
27 August 2006
by Željko Heimer, 3 October 2003
Light-blue equilateral triangle bordered black with red five-pointed
star in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 3 October 2003
by Željko Heimer, 3 October 2003
Red, white and black roundel with a blue segment containing the red
star. Note the oddity that the blue segment is not centered in the
middle of the roundel, but at the top of the black disk—possibly an error in
Military Aircraft Insignia of the World 1998 ([cos98]?)
Željko Heimer, 3 October 2003