The Violet Line was a boundary line agreed between the
United Kingdom and the
Ottoman Empire in March 1914.
[{{citation , url= https://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/publications/view/?id=49, title=The Iraq-Kuwait boundary dispute: historical background and the UN decisions of 1992 and 1993, author=Harry Brown, publisher=IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin, date=October 1994, accessdate= 1 April 2020] It started from the termination of the Blue Line agreed to at the
Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 and extended to the border between the Ottoman
Yemen Vilayet and the British
Aden Protectorates
The Aden Protectorate ( ar, محمية عدن ') was a British protectorate in South Arabia which evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadhramaut following the conquest of Aden by the Bombay Presidency of British India ...
. Together with the Blue Line, the Violet Line effectively divided the Arabian peninsula in two.
References
Further reading
*Anscombe, Frederick F. ''The Ottoman Gulf: the creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar'' New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
*Kelly, J. B. ''Eastern Arabian Frontiers'' New York: Frederick A Praeger, 1964.
*Kelly, J. B. ''Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in Eastern Arabia'' International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs) 34.4 (1958): 16-24.
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Hurewitz, J. C.
Jacob Coleman Hurewitz (November 11, 1914 – May 16, 2008) was an American political scientist
Hurewitz graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1936, then did his graduate work at Columbia, making what was then an unusual deci ...
, ed. ''The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics: A Documentary Record'', 2nd edn. Vol. 1: European Expansion, 1535-1914. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975, pp.567-570.
*Schofield, Richard. ''Kuwait and Iraq: Historical and Territorial Disputes''. London: Chatham House, 1991.
*Slot, B. J. Mubarak al-Sabah: ''Founder of Modern Kuwait 1896-1915''. Arabian Publishing Ltd, 2005.
*Tallon, James N. "Allies and Adversaries: Anglo-Ottoman Boundary Negotiation in the Middle East, 1906–1914" in Justin Q. Olmsted ''Britain in the Islamic World Imperial and Post-Imperial Connections'' London: Palgrave, 2019, 89-105.
*Wilkinson, John C. ''Arabia’s Frontiers: The Story of Britain’s Boundary Drawing in the Desert'', London: I.B. Taurus & Co Ltd, 1991, 100-108.
Borders of Yemen
1914 in the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman period in Yemen
Ottoman Empire–United Kingdom relations