Aden Settlement

Aden Settlement (1839 - 1932) Aden Province (1932 - 1937) إقليم عدن
Province of British India
← 1839–1937 →
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Aden Province including insular dependencies
Capital		Aden
History
•	Occupied by the British	19 January 1839
•	Established as the Colony of Aden	1937
Area		192 km2(74 sq mi)

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Aden, essentially the port of Aden, was governed and organized as a Province of the British India between 1839 and 1937, while physically located on the southern Arabian Peninsula. Aden had been governed since September 1839 as the Aden Settlement, a 'Non-Regulation Province' subordinated to the Bombay Presidency, and then as a 'Regulation Province' governed by a chief commissioner appointed by the Governor-General of India.

After British occupation Aden soon became an important transit port and coaling station for trade between Europe, India and the Far East. The commercial and strategic importance of Aden increased considerably after the Red Sea was surveyed and the Suez Canal opened in 1869. From then and until the 1960s, the Port of Aden was to be one of the busiest ship-bunkering, duty-free shopping, and trading ports in the world.

Later, British influence would extend progressively into the vast hinterland and, by the early 1900s, the British Government of India began to refer to the nine Arab protectorates neighbouring Aden Settlement, consisting of South Arabia and the Aden Residency, as the 'Aden Protectorate'. Aden was to remain under British control until 1967.

Under the Government of India Act 1935, taking effect on 1 April 1937, the territory was detached from British India and was re-organised as a separate Crown Colony on the British Empire, the Colony of Aden.

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