Jumhuriya

Jumhūriyyah (Arabic: جمهورية‎) is the word for "republic" in the Arabic language.

States known officially as Jumhūriyyah:

• historical
  • Al-Jumhuriya al-Trabulsiya, declared the independence of Tripolitania from Italian Libya in 1919
  • Rif Republic (1921-1926)
  • United Arab Republic (1958–1961)
  • Yemen Arab Republic (1962-1990)
  • People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967-1990)
  • Libyan Arab Republic (1969-1977)
  • Federation of Arab Republics (1972–1977)
  • Arab Islamic Republic (1974 proposal)
  • Democratic Republic of Yemen (1994)

• current
  • Republic of Lebanon (1943)
  • Tunisian Republic (1956)
  • Republic of Sudan (1956)
  • Republic of Iraq (1958)
  • Republic of Somalia (1960)
  • Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960)
  • People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (1962)
  • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1976)
  • Arab Republic of Egypt (1977)
  • Syrian Arab Republic (1977)
  • Republic of Djibouti (1977)
  • Republic of Somaliland (1992, unrecognized)
  • Republic of Yemen (1994)
  • Libyan Republic (2011, limited recognition)

Media:

• Al-Jumhuriya, Lebanese newspaper, founded 1924

See also

• List of Republics
• Coats of arms and emblems of Arab countries
• Jamhuri
• Jamahiriya