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The northern area was controlled by the Ottomans until 1918. The rulers, magnets Zaidi, then claimed independence from the rest of the country in the hands of the English.
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They agreed to grant it in 1925 but, however, kept the region of Aden as a protectorate and, somewhat later, and directly the status of colony.
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South Yemen had suffered while a radically different course
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Thus, with successive internal clashes in 1965, King Faisal and President Nasser trying to negotiate peace.
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Birth of the Democratic People's Republic of South Yemen.
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Arab defeat in the Six-Day War, 1967, prompting Egypt, one of the defeated, withdraw the troops from the country.
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the emergence of nationalist groups became increasingly stronger and in 1967, the British decided to leave the area.
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From there Saudi influence grew until 1972, when given the first serious attempt at unification with its southern neighbors.