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Qu'aiti / Aden
Dinosaurs and others prehistoric animals on stamps of Qu'aiti
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Contents
- Country overview
- Philately at Qu'aiti / Aden
- Official stamps of Qu'aiti / Aden related to Paleontology
- References
Qu'aiti, officially the Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut, was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, existed between 1858 and 17 September 1967, in what is now Yemen. Its capital was Al Mukalla and it was divided into six provinces including Al Mukalla, Ash Shihr, Shibam, Du'an, the Western Province and Haj.
As Great Britain planned for the eventual independence of South Arabia in the 1960s, Qu’aiti declined to join the British-sponsored Federation of South Arabia but remained under British protection as part of the Protectorate of South Arabia. Despite promises of a UN referendum to assist in determining the future of the Qu'aiti state in South Arabia on 17 September 1967, Communist forces overran the kingdom and, in November of that year, the Qu’aiti State was integrated forcibly without a referendum into Communist South Yemen. South Yemen united with North Yemen in 1990, again without a referendum, to become the Republic of Yemen. [R1]
Qu’aiti issued stamps first as Qu’aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla and from 1955 as Qu’aiti State in Hadramaut. The emirates continue issues stamps until 1968 when they are already part of South Yemen. [R2]
Official stamps of Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals
| xx.1968 "Recent and Prehistoric animals" [1] | ||
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Notes:
[1] This set exist in both perforated and imperforated variations with some images on sheet margins.References:
[R1] More information about Qu'aiti are on Wikipedia[R2] Some information about postal history of Qu'aiti on Wikipedia and www.stampworldhistory.com
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