The Red Sea Region: sovereignty, boundaries & conflict, 1839-1967The Red Sea Region: Sovereignty, Boundaries and Conflict, 1839 - 1967 collects together nearly 5,000 pages of British government papers in six volumes documenting the political and territorial changes within and between states bordering the Red Sea, or linked with it, including islands and European colonies. The documents selected range across the following countries or territories: Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Somaliland, the Somali coast (later British and Italian Somaliland, and from 1960 Somalia), Ottoman Arabia, the British Mandate of Palestine, Israel, Transjordan renamed Jordan in 1949), the Kingdom of Hijaz, Asir, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Aden Protectorate and Aden.
