sultanate · Arabia and the Gulf

Lower Aulaqi Sultanate

1800 CE – 1967 CE (approx.) · capital Ahwar

A coastal sultanate of the Aulaqi tribes, centred on Ahwar on the Arabian Sea, within the British Aden Protectorate.

Origins

The Lower Aulaqi Sultanate, the coastal member of the Aulaqi states, held the plain around Ahwar on the Gulf of Aden. It emerged as a separate polity around 1800, alongside the Upper Aulaqi Sultanate and the Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom inland.

The sultans governed farming and fishing communities on the coastal plain and Bedouin in the hills. The sultanate signed protection treaties with Britain and was part of the Aden Protectorate. In the early 1960s it joined the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which became the Federation of South Arabia.

In 1967 the National Liberation Front took control and the sultanate was abolished and incorporated into South Yemen.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

Lower Aulaqi Sultanate was part of Aden Protectorate1888 CE – 1967 CE
Lower Aulaqi Sultanate was part of Federation of Arab Emirates of the South1959 CE – 1962 CE
Lower Aulaqi Sultanate was part of Federation of South Arabia1962 CE – 1967 CE

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lower Aulaqi Sultanate. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lower-aulaqi-sultanate
MLA: “Lower Aulaqi Sultanate.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lower-aulaqi-sultanate. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Lower Aulaqi Sultanate.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lower-aulaqi-sultanate.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Lower Aulaqi Sultanate’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lower-aulaqi-sultanate (Accessed: ).

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