Dathina ( '), the Dathina Sheikhdom ( '), or sometimes the Dathina Confederation, was a state in the

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Aden Protectorate The Aden Protectorate ( ') was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut after the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India in January ...

, the

Federation of Arab Emirates of the South The Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia ( ''Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy'') was an organization of State (polity), states within the British Empire, British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federati ...

, and its successor, the

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. Its capital was

Mudiyah Mudiyah is a village in south-western Yemen. It is located in the Abyan Governorate. It was the historical capital of Dathina state. In March 2017, Amqoz, in Mudiyah district, Abyan province, was the site of a United States UAV strike on a vehicl ...

History

The state was abolished on 14 August 1967 upon the founding of the

People's Republic of Yemen South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 19 ...

. In 1990 it became part of the Republic of

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Rulers

Dathina was ruled for one-year terms by Chairmen of the Council of State who bore the title ''Na'ib, Ra'is Majlis al-Dawla''.States of the Aden Protectorates
/ref> *1965 - 6? Apr 1966? al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Jabiri *1966 - 14 Aug 1967 `Abd al-Qadir ibn Shaya

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Map of Arabia (1905-1923) including the states of Aden Protectorate
States in the Aden Protectorate Federation of South Arabia Former monarchies of Asia Former confederations {{MEast-hist-stub

History

Rulers

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