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United Arab States اتحاد الدول العربية Ātḥād Āldwl Ālʿrbyāh | |||||||||||||||
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| 1958–1961 | |||||||||||||||
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| Capital | Cairo, Sana'a | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Arab Cold War | ||||||||||||||
• Established | 8 March 1958 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 26 December 1961 | ||||||||||||||
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The United Arab States (UAS, Arabic: اتحاد الدول العربية) was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen from 1958 to 1961.
The United Arab Republic was a sovereign state formed by the union of Egypt and Syria in 1958. The same year, the Kingdom of Yemen, which had already signed a defense pact with Egypt, entered a loose confederation with the UAR called the United Arab States on March 8. One reason for this decision was because Yemen had felt threatened by its considerably larger and more powerful northern neighbor Saudi Arabia[a] and saw the confederation as a source of security.[1] However, unlike the member countries of the United Arab Republic, North Yemen remained an independent sovereign state. It maintained its UN membership and separate embassies throughout the whole period of confederation.
Neither the union nor the confederation fulfilled their role as vehicles of pan-Arabism or Arab nationalism, resulting in its dissolution in 1961.
List of Leaders of the United Arab States
[edit]| Country | Name | Term of Office | Party | |
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| United Arab Republic | Gamal Abdel Nasser جمال عبد الناصر (1918–1970) | 23 June 1956 | 28 September 1970 | Arab Socialist Union (UAR) |
| Kingdom of Yemen | Ahmad bin Yahya أحمد بن يحيى حميد الدين (1891–1962) | 17 February 1948 | 19 September 1962 | None |
See also
[edit]- Arab Federation, a confederation between Iraq and Jordan (1958)
- United Arab Republic, a union of Egypt and Syria (1958–1961)
- Federation of Arab Republics, a confederation of Egypt, Libya and Syria (1972–1977)
- Union of Arab Republics, a proposed union of Egypt, Iraq and Syria (1972)
- Arab Islamic Republic, a proposed union of Libya and Tunisia (1974)
Notes
[edit]- ^ The two had fought a war in 1934, and still shared a partially undemarcated border
References
[edit]- ^ Ghanem, Isam (1981). Yemen: Political History, Social Structure and Legal System. Arthur Probsthain. p. 8. ISBN 978-0853820185.
External links
[edit]- The Charter of the United Arab States. in Basic Documents of the Arab Unifications. p. 21.
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