Radfan or the Radfan Hills is a region of the Republic of

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

. In the 1960s, the area was part of a

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Dhala Dhale or Dhala, also spelled Dali and Dhalea and sometimes prefixed with Al or Ad (), is the capital town of Dhale Governorate in south-western Yemen. It is located at around , at an elevation of around 1500 metres. History Formerly it was the ca ...

(a member of the

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) and was the site of intense fighting during the

Aden Emergency The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution () or as the Radfan Uprising, was an armed rebellion by the National Liberation Front (South Yemen), National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South ...

. In 1964, local

Qutaibi Qutaibi ( ') or the Qutaibi Sheikhdom ( ') was a polity in the western Aden Protectorate, a dependency of the Emirate of Dhala and now part of the Republic of Yemen. In 1964, during the Aden Emergency, its tribesmen attacked British Empire ...

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speople attacked the British on the

Aden Aden () is a port city located in Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, on the north coast of the Gulf of Aden, positioned near the eastern approach to the Red Sea. It is situated approximately 170 km (110 mi) east of ...

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route which passed through the nearby town

(Ad Dali'). The tribespeople had traditionally collected tolls from passing caravans, but the implementation of the

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of the Federation of South Arabia in 1962 put a stop to this. The tribespeople resented the loss of this income. The highest peak is Jebel Huriyah at 1867 m (6125 ft).

External links

"Radfan" page at ''The History of British Military Conflicts since 1945''
Unavailable 5 August 2018.
"Tracking the 'Red Wolves of Radfan': from 1964 through 1967"
Unavailable 5 August 2018. Regions of Yemen {{MEast-hist-stub