Map showing the Violet Line between the Province of Yemen and the Aden Protectorate.
Map showing the Violet Line.

The Violet Line was a boundary line agreed between the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire in March 1914.[1][2] 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. Together with the Blue Line, the Violet Line effectively divided the Arabian peninsula in two.

References

  1. ^ Richard Schofield (31 March 1999), Negotiating the Saudi-Yemeni international boundary, Al-Bab, retrieved 30 March 2020
  2. ^ Harry Brown (October 1994), The Iraq-Kuwait boundary dispute: historical background and the UN decisions of 1992 and 1993, IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin, retrieved 1 April 2020

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