What Happened to the Old Flag of Yemen?

Yemen, a country in the southwestern Arabian Peninsula was created following the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990, before that two separate states had existed as a result of the British protectorates in the south and a theocracy in the north. In this video, find out about the vexilological history behind these countries.
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[@davea6314]

The Yemen's old scimitar sword flag is cool, but not as cool as Wales' red dragon flag.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

My favorite weapon flags are the ones that show the weapons in use. The Nottinghamshirian flag shows Robin Hood shooting a bow and the flag of the Kingdom of Benin shows someone using a sword to decapitate someone.

[@davea6314]

@@EnigmaticLucas Chop 🪓 🗣️ I'm a bloody Yank, are you a bloody Limey?

[@perla5465]

Yet Wales dragon flag still exists but Yemen’s sword one doesn’t

[@melloncollic]

No flag is as cool as the Welsh one.

[@davea6314]

​@@melloncollicAgreed

[@TheStickCollector]

More original than inverse germany

[@GreenPoint_one]

I love the saber flag, so pretty. Atleast it was unique

[@zcl812]

Scimitar, not saber

[@AlexCab_49]

South Yemen flag also went pretty hard tbh

[@mrbisshie]

Cool sword flag v upside down German Empire flag.

[@warbler1984]

Would love if you continued the viking series with a video on the vikings in Ireland

[@Jobe-13]

I think flag changes symbolize socio-political, cultural, and territorial transformations of a country.

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Hilbert. Informative and topical, as always.

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Hilbert, can you please make videos on what happened to the old flags of Thailand and Malaysia. Thank you very much.

[@micahistory]

nice video, never seen this covered

[@1batarfi]

There are more flags actually. Especially in the south, such as the Sultanate of Lahj, the Sultanate of Mahra, the Qaiti Sultanate, and the Kathiri Sultanate.

[@jp6869]

These flags were suppressed after the Federation of South Arabia became the centralized, one party state of South Yemen. Only the flag of the old Mahra sultanate is still seen on occasion. Mahra still exists as a governate, and is the homeland of the Mahri people, who speak a South Arabian language of their own. The flag is now taken to represent this community.

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

ALLAH BLESS YEMEN

[@temogen2]

Thanks

[@heyu.]

Flutting in the high, my heart is playing, red is the color of freedom.. and the white of humanity.. Black is a past that we destroyed with the light of the Yemeni sun.🦅🇾🇪

[@Yo-Uncle]

Too many tricolor flags now, barely any with swords or dragons. Very lame in my opinion

[@YoussefDaanBenAmor]

Yemen followed in the footsteps of other Arab and Muslim nations choosing the relatively simple pan Arab colours over a flag of historical importance like that of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom.

[@saeedyeslam1202]

historical tragedies more like it

[@celtic69]

Yeah man

[@banna314]

a brief comment at 1:40, while the egyptian flag looks visually inspired from the arab revolt flag it does not have the same symbolism for the colors (probably because the free officers wanted to distance themselves from any monarchist attachment and that the arab revolt flag was associated with hashimite kingdoms which the officers saw as just british agents) so the official symbolism of most of the arab republican flags is red for the martyrs, white for peace, black for darkness and oppression of colonial times. that's also why it gets changed to this tricolor after the coups that changes these kingdoms into republics (as all there coups were mostly inspired or conspired by Nassir)

[@SantaFe19484]

You seem to have a lot of flag videos.

[@Sara-qp2lk]

Flags changed but Yemenis still remain the same. Strong mens and modest woman’s respect and love

[@nishantsingh7235]

What

[@ABOUD_G95]

that’s the eagle of saladin

[@wesamalkenai]

Iam from yemen ❤

[@Humblehoggog]

How did I end up on a video about Starbucks opening Starbucks in Egypt. I don’t have the sound on but it looks like it involves an eagle

[@jp6869]

The previous flag was better. A national flag is supposed to be readily distinguishable from all others.

[@Alejandro-te2nt]

Just a guess but perhaps the 5 stars of the flag of the Yemeni Imamate represent the ahlul kisa' the people of the cloak. Namely the prophet Muhammad (saw) Fatimah Zahra (as) Imam Ali (as) Imam Hasan (as) and Imam Hussein(as). Since the Zaydis are followers of the ahlul kisa' and their righteous descendants

[@ayubk2638]

Or the 5 pillars of Islam.

[@aakws68]

where my yemenis at 🔥

[@wesamalkenai]

Long live Yemen

[@navdhillon7912]

they should have left some green on there to represent the Khat leaves they chew on like goats to get high off

[@erikthomsen4768]

And here I thought Libya was just being wierd for having a single color flag.

[@juamu1132]

imam john

[@user-cr3pn7rk2v]

imo these French inspired tricolor flags are soulless

[@southarabia0]

The unity with North Yemen was a big mistake and we kept fighting to get our counyry back, and now with the rise of Houthis in the North, the disengaged of the two state is inevitable

[@wesamalkenai]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NanaFaiaa]

yeah but don't make it look like its our fault but anyway bro we are in 2024 there is yemen no north or south yemen be reasonable

[@morenauer]

Tbh, never trust a nation whose name is 1 character removed from "semen".

[@southarabia0]

This wonderful nation was mentioned in all Torah, Bible and Quran and had a great civilization. And for the Name, Yemen means South in the old language of Yemen(Sabean)