Madinat Asha'ab or Madinat ash Sha'b () formerly called Al-Ittihād (, meaning "union" or "unity"), is a district of

Aden Aden () is a port city located in Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, on the north coast of the Gulf of Aden, positioned near the eastern approach to the Red Sea. It is situated approximately 170 km (110 mi) east of ...

Aden Governorate Aden ( ) is a governorate of Yemen, including the city of Aden. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 589,419. The ancient capital, the port city of Crater, was located here. Aden was under British rule in the period from 1839 to 1967. In ...

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

. Madinat Asha'ab was founded in 1959 as Al-Ittihād, the first capital of the British

Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia The Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia ( ''Ittiḥād ʾImārāt al-Janūb al-ʿArabiyy'') was an organization of states within the British Aden Protectorate in what would become South Yemen. The Federation of six states was inaugurated ...

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Aden Districts of Aden Governorate {{Yemen-geo-stub