South Yemen

British  

noun

1. Official name (1967–90): People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.  Name from 1963 to 1967 (excluding Aden): Federation of South Arabia.   South Arabia.  a former republic in SW Arabia, on the Gulf of Aden; now a part of Yemen: became a republic in 1967; merged with North Yemen in 1990 See also Yemen North Yemen

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Example Sentences

In downtown Aden on Friday, many thousands joined a pro-STC rally, waving flags of the South Yemen state along with posters of al-Zubaidi, and the occasional Emirati banner.

From Los Angeles Times

According to his official STC biography, he was raised in southwest Yemen's rugged Dhale governorate and later entered the Faculty of Air Force and Air Defence in Aden -- then the capital of South Yemen.

From Barron's

Somaliland and South Yemen, once created, will control oil flows from the Red Sea.

From MarketWatch

They now control almost all of South Yemen's former territory following their lighting offensive in early December, with the STC holding more land than any other single faction in Yemen's fractious political landscape.

From Barron's

At the start of the war, the STC and other separatists seeking independence for south Yemen, which was a separate country before unification with the north in 1990, formed an uneasy alliance with the government to stop the Houthis capturing the southern city of Aden.

From BBC