Yemen Arab Republic
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الجمهورية العربية اليمنية al-Jumhūrīyah al-‘Arabīyah al-Yamanīyah |
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Anthem Peace To The Land (before 1978) A Nation's Will (after 1978) |
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| Capital | Sana'a | |||||||||
| Government | Unitary one-party state under military junta | |||||||||
| President | ||||||||||
| • | 1962–1967 (first) | Abdullah as-Sallal | ||||||||
| • | 1978–1990 (last) | Ali Abdullah Saleh | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||||||
| • | 1962–1963 (first) | Abdullah as-Sallal | ||||||||
| • | 1983–1990 (last) | Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani | ||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | |||||||||
| • | Established | 27 September 1962 | ||||||||
| • | Unification | 22 May 1990 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1990 | 195,000 km² (75,290 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1990 est. | 7,160,981 | ||||||||
| Density | 36.7 /km² (95.1 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| Currency | North Yemeni rial | |||||||||
| Calling code | +967 | |||||||||
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 Yemen
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The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية اليمنية al-Jumhūrīyah al-‘Arabīyah al-Yamanīyah), also known as North Yemen or Yemen (Sana'a), was a country from 1962 to 1990 in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen. Its capital was at Sana'a. It united with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, commonly known as South Yemen, on May 22, 1990, to form the current Republic of Yemen.
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 after the Great War, northern Yemen became an independent state as the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen. On 27 September 1962, revolutionaries inspired by the Arab nationalist ideology of United Arab Republic (Egyptian) President Gamal Abdel Nasser deposed the newly crowned King Muhammad al-Badr, took control of Sana'a, and established the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR). This coup d'état marked the beginning of the North Yemen Civil War that pitted YAR troops, assisted by the United Arab Republic (Egypt), against Badr's royalist forces, supported by Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Conflict continued periodically until 1967, when Egyptian troops were withdrawn to join the conflict of the Six-Day War. By 1968, following a final royalist siege of Sana'a, most of the opposing leaders reached a reconciliation. Saudi Arabia recognized the Republic in 1970.
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