Democratic Republic of Yemen

Democratic Republic of Yemen
جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية
Jumhūrīyat al-Yaman ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyah
May 1994–July 1994
Flag of Yemen, Democratic Republic of
Flag
Anthem: الجمهورية المتحدة
al-Jumhūrīyah al-Muttaḥidâh
"United Republic"
Location of claimed territory of the Democratic Republic of Yemen (red)

– in Asia (tan & white)
– in South Arabia (tan)

StatusUnrecognized state
CapitalAden
Common languagesArabic
GovernmentUnitary Marxist–Leninist[1]one-party socialist republic
President 
• 1994
Ali Salim al-Beidh
Prime Minister 
• 1994
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas
Historical eraYemeni Civil War
• Established
May 1994
• Disestablished
July 1994
Area
• Total
360,133 km2 (139,048 sq mi)
CurrencySouth Yemeni dinar
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Yemen
Yemen

The Democratic Republic of Yemen (Arabic: جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية Jumhūrīyat al-Yaman ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyah), was a breakaway state that fought against the mainland Yemen in the 1994 Yemeni Civil War. It was declared in May 1994 and covered all of the former South Yemen.

The DRY, with its capital in Aden, was led by President Ali Salim al-Beidh and Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas and represented a response to the weakening position of the South in the civil war of 1994. The new state failed to receive international recognition. Its leaders, in addition to Yemeni Socialist Party figures such as al-Beidh and Attas, included some prominent personalities from South Yemeni history such as Abdallah al-Asnaj, who had been strenuously opposed to YSP one-party rule in the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.[2]

  1. ^ "Au Yémen, l'indéracinable Ali Abdallah Saleh". La Croix (in French). 10 October 2016. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  2. ^ Dresch, Paul (2000). A History of Yemen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 196.